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too little of the good in question;
3.
[15]
though vice versa in
the case of an evil, because a lesser evil in comparison with a greater counts as a good,
3.
[16]
since the lesser of
two evils is more desirable than the greater, but what is desirable is good, and the more
desirable it is, the greater good it is.3.
[17]
This then is one kind of Justice.4.
The remaining kind is Corrective Justice, which operates in private transactions, both
voluntary and involuntary.
[2]
This justice is of a different
sort from the preceding. For justice in distributing common property always conforms with
the proportion we have described （since when a distribution is made from the
common stock, it will follow the same ratio as that between the amounts which the several
persons have contributed to the common stock）; and the injustice opposed to
justice of this a kind is a violation of this proportion.
[3]
But the just in private transactions, although it is the equal in a sense （and
the unjust the unequal）,
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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