I disagree that a righteous mind has been made mainly by reasoning. Instead, I regard justice as an instinctual, compassionate quality of one's mind and also a collective mentality in a society. This is a matter of affection and love toward anything they strive to protect, as well as unconscious mindsets to sympathize with the values a group pursuit they are in.
Why an individual should not kill another person? While a condemned criminal can be sentenced to death, and while hundreds of thousands of soldiers killed around ten thousand in ongoing war? Because, generally speaking, an individual assumed to be innocent without any given context implies that the person is not dangerous or wrong. And basically, common people tend to preserve the existence of another human because they want to do it, to protect the innocent normality.
So, the term justice has been conceptualized by affection toward generalized objects. It is a pretty abstract terminology derived from understanding relationships between generalized subject(s) and object(s). And that understanding has been done by subjective emotions. Parts of the sentiments can be formed by societal conformity, while other parts are unique and distinguished by others.
Regarding abstract notions, it is a set of collective images consisting of a particular representation. For example, an individual has a concept of an apple. Whether one has an actual apple doesn't matter. When the person has a set of enough images, including an image solely made by their imagination, there would be something that can be called an apple. That's the mental representation of an apple. So the word apple as a symbol can make a person who understands the notion arise a certain sentiment. As representations of an apple are different for people, we have unique sentiments and definitions of it.
That sentiment of representation forms the concept of justice. If a person holds a negative idea of a religious or a political group, for instance, the person may not want to respect them. Or even that feeling cannot be a big difference from seeing a cockroach. On the other extreme, there can be a person who doesn't feel anything toward them despite their negative concept. So, representations and sentiments they got are two distinguishable things. Therefore, when it comes to tell justice, it relies heavily on affection.
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