 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
... but "justice" is a concept which it is very difficult to make precise. Plato's Republic professes to be an attempt to define it, but it cannot be said that the attempt is very successful. Under the influence of democratic sentiment modern men tend to identify justice with equality, but even now there are limits to this view. ... I think that in fact "justice" must be defined as "what most people think just", or rather, to avoid the vicious circle, "that system which gives the least commonly recognized ground of complaint".
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), chapter 1
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