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... each his rights" (p.170) formed through actions and experience. He supports his ideas with Aristotle's words "justice is a habit whereby a man is said to be capable of doing just actions in accordance with his choice."(Ethic. v , 5). Telemez 2 A human virtue is one which renders a human act and man himself good, and this can applied to justice. A human virtue is what we produce good and we attain a good through "reason". Aquinas claims that, "justice [is a rule of reason] regulates human acts , it is clear that it renders a man's work good"(p.174). For him, justice is done out of necessity and there is two kinds of necessity(p.174) one is from constraint, forced by unnatural thing and the other one is from an obligation of a command but it do not remove the merit. "Particular justice excels the other moral virtues for ...