UNDERSTAND "JUSTICE"

"It is proper to justice, as compared with the other virtues, to direct man in his relations with others;...on the other hand the other virtues perfect man only in those matters which befit him in relation to himself/herself." This text from Summa Theologica { St. Thomas Aquinas} has the very same meaning as  Iustitia est ad alterum- Justice is directed toward the other man. The difference, the separateness of the other party is intended more precisely and literally than may appear at glance.

What distinguishes Justice from love is just this: in the relationship of justice, men confront each other as separate "others", almost as strangers. "Justice " properly speaking demands a distinction of parties. 

To be just means to recognize the other as other; it means to give acknowledgement even where one cannot love. Justice says: That is another person, who is other than I, and who nevertheless has his own peculiar due. A just man is just, therefore, because he sanctions another person in his very separateness and helps him to receive his due.

Samuel Nyonje Muhanji   0708607911/0735092809