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    Correlative to every duty of justice there must be a corr... — Carmelics
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    Supports→There must be rights that belong to everyone without discrimination, correlative to the universal duties of justice.

    Correlative to every duty of justice there must be a corresponding right held by the person owed that duty.

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    Justice is the steady and lasting willingness to give to others what they are entitled to (their right: jus [or ius] suum). Aquinas works with this Roman Law definition (ST II-II q. 58 a. 1c), and with Aristotle’s division of justice into (i) distributive (good judgment about how to divide up and parcel out beneficial or burdensome wholes or sets in a way that is fair because guided by appropriate criteria) and (ii) what Aquinas calls commutative justice (good judgment going far wider than Arist

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