• Chs. 1-2 are mainly occupied with a single distinction that is presented in a way that might be confusing. You may save yourself some frustration if you look first either at Irwin’s glossary entry on justice or at §§ 8-9 of ch. 2.

• The ideas of justice in distribution and in rectification in chs. 3-4 are the two most important ones in this assignment. Aristotle presents each using a mathematical analogy (though he also describes the ideas more directly). The analogy in ch. 4 is complex enough that you should either draw the diagrams he describes or look that the diagrams in Irwin’s notes on p. 231.

• Aristotle’s discussion of justice in exchange in ch. 5 is a little odd since he says some interesting things about exchange and currency but little about justice. He comes closer to speaking about justice in contracts in bk. ix, ch. 1, §§8-9 (1164b7-21), a part of his discussion of friendship that I won’t be assigning.

• Finally, ch. 6 discusses the scope of law, and ch. 7 introduces a distinction between ideas that came to be phrased later as “natural law” and “positive law” (where the term ‘positive’ refers to law that is posited or laid down).