How is justice defined?

Joseph Addison in The Guardian once said, "There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice." But today the great question is: How is justice defined?

Progressives or liberals have essentially identified justice with material equality. Thus, a "just" society is one where wealth is equally distributed and everyone has access to life's basic needs. This approach, however desirable it may be, cannot possibly be defined as justice. It is at best unrealistically utopian. Material equality can never be achieved, not even in the basics of life, and efforts to produce it only result in the worst forms of injustice, where eventually private property is seized and distributed through acts of tyranny.

Mark H. Creech