Sunday, October 22, 2017

Hylomorphism and Economic Justice

Despite classifying Justice as a personal attribute, Aristotle proceeds to examine varieties of Distributive and Reciprocatory Justice, all of which are transpersonal.  Absent from his usual thoroughness, is any attention to what might be called Contributive Justice, the best-known formulation of which is Marx' 'From each according to his ability'.  So, from the three combined is a Hylomorphic concept of Economic Justice--a distribution of goods in accordance with a reciprocation commensurate with contribution.  Accordingly, since Private Property, as well as its abolition, is each a scheme of the distribution of some goods, Aristotle's advocacy of the former, in opposition to Plato's of the latter, as the Hylomorphic concept illustrates, expresses a disagreement over in the category of Political Justice, whether or not he recognizes such.

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