Justice as a Virtue: A Comparative Study on Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Kınalızade Ali and Alasdair MacIntyre

Abstract

In this article, which is written in order to study the treatments of the virtue-oriented ethics concern of the Ancient Age into various cultures, geographies and eras, and the dramatic impact of the paradigm on the concept of justice, the analogy between the virtue inherited from Aristotle and the way of thinking of Nasîruddin Tusî, Kınalızâde Ali and Alasdair MacIntyre. It is questioned that how Tusî and Kınalızâde adapted the virtues into Islamic ethics and possibilities of “re-adoption of the virtue ethics” of MacIntyre; and what it is possible to melt the contemporary and Aristotelian virtues into one pot.