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Comparing Grotius I, 1, §8

Happy Independence Day. The paper I recently delivered at NYU was a study of the Grotian distinction between 'expletive' and 'attributive' forms of justice.  They are inspired by the Aristotelian forms of 'commutative' and 'distributive' justice, but with some modifications (e.g., Grotius thinks treating the former strictly in cases of 'synallagma' is too strict).   The distinction is first introduced in I, 1, §8.  Here is page in my 1646:  Now here are the corresponding pages from the 1632 (the Jansonius) I studied in the Peace Palace Library in The Hague: Both end §8 with a famous reference to Xenophon on the young Cyrus - how to decide the case of the large tunic on the small boy, and the small tunic on the fat boy.   This is notably missing in 1625: Why bring in Xenophon at this spot?

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