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    Aristotle's proportional justice requires treating equal ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Each person is to be respected as an equal among equals, without consideration of individual achievements, social rank, or moral merit.

    Aristotle's proportional justice requires treating equal cases equally and unequal cases unequally in proportion to morally relevant differences.

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    • 1.Treating identical cases identically is a basic requirement of fairness and avoids arbitrary discrimination.
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    • 2.Proportional responses to differences reflect moral reality: greater harms deserve greater remedies.
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    • 3.This principle reconciles equality with merit, allowing justice systems to reward virtue and punish vice appropriately.
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    • 1.Identifying 'morally relevant differences' requires prior moral theory; the principle doesn't generate substantive answers.
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    • 2.Different people reasonably disagree on which differences matter, making proportional justice indeterminate in practice.
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    • 3.Focusing on proportion risks justifying severe inequalities if society deems certain groups less morally worthy.
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