=In Ethical Literature Justice Has Borne at Least Three Different Senses.=[194]--In its widest sense, it means righteousness, uprightness, rectitude. It sums up morality. It is not _a_ virtue, but it is virtue. The just act is the _due_ act; justice is fulfillment of obligation. (2) This passes over into fairness, equity, impartiality, honesty in all one's dealing with others. (3) The narrowest meaning is that of _vindication_ of right through the administration of law.[194] Since Aristotle's time (and following his treatment) this has been divided into (i.) the _distributive_, having to do with the assignment of honor, wealth, etc., in proportion to desert, and (ii.) the _corrective_, vindicating the law against the transgressor by effecting a requital, redress, which restores the supremacy of law. =A Thread of Common Significance Runs through These Various Meanings.=--The rational good means a comprehensive or complete end, in which are harmoniously included a variety of special aims and values. The just man is the man who takes in the whole of a situation and reacts to it in its wholeness, not being misled by undue respect to some particular factor. Since the general or inclusive good is a common or social good, reconciling and combining the ends of a multitude of private or particular persons, justice is the preëminently social virtue: that which maintains the due order of individuals in the interest of the comprehensive or social unity. Justice, as equity, fairness, impartiality, honesty, carries the recognition of the whole over into the question of right distribution and apportionment among its parts. The equitable judge or administrator is the one who makes no unjustifiable distinctions among those dealt with. A fair price is one which recognizes the rights of both buyer and seller. An honest man is the one who, with respect to whatever he has to distribute to others and to receive from them, is desirous of giving and taking just what belongs to each party concerned. The fair-minded man is not bribed by pleasure into giving undue importance to some element of good nor coerced by fear of pain into ignoring some other. He _distributes_ his attention, regard, and attachment according to the reasonable or objective claims of each factor.