Distributive justice is said by Aristotle to deal with individuals according to geometrical ratio; corrective justice, according to arithmetical proportion.
Its spirit gave an impulse to opinion and sentiment, but its errors and ignorance disabled it from supplying any corrective to the bad institutions and mistaken policy which fostered barbarism.
It is far too little attended to in England in any class, though, from acting as a continual corrective to selfish and unsocial affections, it is peculiarly requisite in all.
The talents of the judges rather increased the evil, than afforded a corrective for the vicious constitution of these courts.
The recent report of the President's Committee on Civil Rights points the way to corrective action by the Federal Government and by State and local governments.
And among children, crippling defects are often discovered too late for any corrective action.
The task of furnishing a corrective for derangements of the paper medium with us is almost inexpressibly great.
That experience has shown the need for some corrective action, and we should promptly proceed to amend that act.
If we consider the protective duties, which are in a great degree the source of the surplus revenue, beneficial to one section of the Union and prejudicial to another, there is no corrective for the evil in such a plan of distribution.
Failing this, it will not hesitate to apply whatever corrective may be provided by the statutes.
Public opinion in this country is all-powerful, and when it reaches a dangerous excess upon any question the good sense of the people will furnish the corrective and bring it back within safe limits.
It was my painful duty at your last session, under the weight of most solemn obligations, to differ with Congress on the measures which it proposed for my approval, and which it doubtless regarded as corrective of existing evils.
To preserve the people from the rapaciousness and cruelty of these noble and clerical robbers, knights-errant sometimes scoured the plain; but this mode of corrective was very imperfectly applied.
As the corrective of the violences of feudal licentiousness, no where was chivalry more required, and no where was it less known than in Germany.
In mutual acquaintance by common association, wherever such intercourse can be brought about, lies the corrective of much present misunderstanding that separates us.
Sometimes the whole efficiency of the treatment administered as a corrective for a moral disorder depends upon the readiness and willingness with which it is taken.
As a corrective to the author's too effusive sentiment, some brief passages from the Governor-General's minute may be quoted.
These observations, which are perfectly true, form a correctiveto the fashionable abuse of the Indian capitalist, whose virtues and merits are seldom noticed.
Her charming volumes should be in the hands of every student of literature as a corrective against the debasing theories and tendencies of modern book-making.
His essays are corrective and should find their way into every Irish-American home.
From such a source, the poet’s chance ofcorrective criticism has been slight.
Who has not seen men with faces of this corrective power till they frustrated it by speech or action?
Had he not first risen on her vision as a corrective presence which she had recognized in the beginning with resentment, and at last with entire love and trust?
What is going on here is actually a remarkable corrective to the simplistic notion of the tragedy of the commons, a corrective to the Internet Threat storyline and to the dynamics of the second enclosure movement.
One excess or exaggeration is the corrective of the other, and error promotes truth, where the masses are concerned, by counterbalancing a contrary error.
Indirect elections are scarcely anywhere in use out of Germany, but they have been a favourite corrective of democracy with many thoughtful politicians.
This is a service which no other force could accomplish; for it is a corrective alike of absolute monarchy, of democracy, and of constitutionalism, as well as of the centralisation which is common to all three.
That intolerance of social freedom which is natural to absolutism is sure to find a corrective in the national diversities, which no other force could so efficiently provide.
The spade is a grand corrective of nerve strain, and the more town and factory workers take up allotment gardens, the better for each individual, and for us all as a race.
He uses the corrective rod, not the destroying sword.
It is necessary that we should be trained in the school of adversity; and that by a course of corrective discipline, nicely adapted to each particular case, our characters should be gradually matured for a nobler existence.
It is important to trace evil passions and principles to their origin, to watch their developement and first operations, and, at the earliest possible period, to implant corrective sentiments in the youthful mind.
The Republicans looked on it as corrective of the many acts which during the war had almost doubled the duties to secure revenue.
Substantial proof of the efficacy of this corrective was to be found in the Alien and Sedition laws, according to the Republicans.
A progressive adjustment to the human law gives ethical efficiency, and this is the proper corrective of material efficiency, and not love alone as the sentimentalist is so fond of preaching.
Furthermore, a critical humanism would appear to be the proper corrective of the other main forms of naturalistic excess at the present time--the one-sided devotion to physical science.
To many this problem seemed wholly insoluble, because its solution involved a suspension or a corrective of a law of nature.
True, he was wont after every surrender he made during the Conference to invoke the Covenant and its concrete realization--the League of Nations--as the corrective which would set everything right in the future.
But how am I a corrective outside the fact that I'm your brother?
One reason why you're a corrective to George is that you're a gentleman.
To attempt to attain a social morality without a basis of democratic experience results in the loss of the only possible corrective and guide, and ends in an exaggerated individual morality but not in social morality at all.
It will continue until its remedial and corrective purpose is completed and no longer, whether in this life or some other.
Yet, I have already said that I did not believe any sin ever committed by man ever went unpunished, either here or hereafter, until the full penalty was paid, and the punishment had completed its remedial and corrective purpose.
