Judicial Virtues and Empathy

In this paper I examine in its main features a recent attempt in the domain of legal ethics, one that seeks to address the question of justice in relation with empathy. For this purpose, I reconstruct the positions of Michael Slote and John Deigh, aiming to show the kind of criticisms to which both of them are subject. Accordingly, I suggest that Aristotle ' s perspective is better equipped to confront those kinds of criticisms. Besides, all these developments and discussions are framed in a fruitful field of legal philosophy: the so-called Virtue Jurisprudence, to which I shall also refer in this article.