As I remember the terms "Distributive Justice" were first used by Aristotle in his "Politics." Perhaps Aristotle did not attach the same meaning. In essence Aristotle meant giving every man his due by means of proportion.
http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/politics.html
He doesn’t use the specific slogan of ‘distributive justice’, but he does talk a lot about justice and a just distribution of things. It’s book 3, part IX.(probably elsewhere as well)
Ultimately, wealth redistribution is a very, very old concept that authoritarian dictators have used for centuries. What these “social theorists” have done is re-packaged it as if it’s something brand new and they sell it as if it’s a 20th century concept. It’s not new at all, it’s much older than Liberty and it’s not all that surprising that Aristotle wrote of the concept. Benjamin Franklin tells us:
http://progressingamerica.blogspot.com/2011/08/ben-franklin-wealth-redistribution.html
“”Hence as all history informs us, there has been in every State & Kingdom a constant kind of warfare between the governing & governed: the one striving to obtain more for its support, and the other to pay less. And this has alone occasioned great convulsions, actual civil wars, ending either in dethroning of the Princes, or enslaving of the people. Generally indeed the ruling power carries its point, the revenues of princes constantly increasing, and we see that they are never satisfied, but always in want of more. The more the people are discontented with the oppression of taxes; the greater need the prince has of money to distribute among his partizans and pay the troops that are to suppress all resistance, and enable him to plunder at pleasure. There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah, get first all the peoples money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants for ever.””
This was all said at the Constitutional Convention, hardly a miniscule event on its own in world history. This is likely one of the reasons why the Founders were so absolutely in favor of private propery. They read history. They knew. They saw it both in the books and in their own lives.