Abstract

Since antiquity, ethics and justice have been two essential themes in philosophy. From Socratic ethics (470–399 BC), whose main foundation is the objective good and virtue, to Aristotelian morality (384–322 BC), which advocates happiness as the supreme goal of human life, to Foucauldian ethics, which is oriented towards concern for the self, we see that ethics have always been at the heart of the great philosophical debates. Through their reflections, the philosophers always tried to articulate in the same movement of thought ethics and justice, because for them, ethical reflection needs to be supported by justice without which it risks to be denatured. However, the plurality of meanings given to ethics makes it difficult to attempt to define the concept and to apply the concept of ethical justice. Taking into account this ambiguity and in view of the importance of ethics in the practice of law, one wonders how to reconcile ethics and justice? This is the problem identified through this article.