Justice, by which I mean doing the right thing, has always been a topic of utmost importance for many great philosophers. A knowledge on philosophy gives more faces to justice as we know it. Kant, Dante, Plato, Humes, Aristotle, Rawls et al, have produced their own theories of justice, sometimes on similar grounds also. But how moral actions and virtues play a role in justice is what that is absorbing. As often as people argue that individuals should live on own moral freedom and obligations, when in a society, individuals become a part of the larger group exactly where social contract comes into place. But to what extent does virtue have a role in justice or does it have one at all is the question.

Paraphrasing the moral dilemmas from Michael Sandel 's Justice: What 's the Right Thing to Do? Can bring in more perspectives to look at justice and our actions. Firstly the trolly-car case, where we have the choice of either killing one person who is not involved in the situation to save five lives, or kill those five people by not doing anything. In Sandel 's class at Harvard, he found students supporting both the choices for reasons. It is rational to say that killing one instead of killing five is right, but there are also arguments that say killing a person who is not involved in the situation at all is not just. Both the arguments are valid in their own ways; for not either one of them is right nor wrong. Sandel categorizes these two contrary arguments into moral