 Suárez's highly original discussion of distributive justice has been unjustly neglected. Its originality resides in the rejection of some of the main principles of the Aristotelian conception of distributive justice that significantly shaped the modern conception, including that of, for instance, John Rawls. Among these were the principles that distributive justice operates only when total funds are insufficient to meet some ideal or desired standard and that a just distribution is a just division and so presupposes a divisible good and multiple recipients.