RE: What is Justice?
January 4, 2012 at 3:05 am
(This post was last modified: January 4, 2012 at 3:05 am by Perhaps.)
Quote:It was not only the law - it was the highest law of the land - that blacks counted as 3/5 of a person.
It took 90 years and a civil war to get rid of an unjust law.
I quite agree that the law was unjust. But was it just to anyone? Perhaps those who devised it? Is justice determined by the collective or is it individual?
Quote:Note the duality of Letter/Spirit of Law. The spirit of the lawgiver seems to have always been morality; what is lacking from traditional knowledge of morality is the fact that it is individual. I keep thinking twelve thousand years is the age of civilization, which is a thing of writing, of spirit, of law.
All the people who ever lived, me and you, the book of life, we 2. Point object truths between which can only be a line, what is true. What is true can only be expressed in language, but the words are always changing, and we are always drawing more lines, trying to define, which can only confine.
So then, justice is individual? I enjoy your illustration of subjective ideals and the ever changing aspect of language.
What becomes of justice if it is found to be subjective and individual? Does it lose its value in determining right from wrong?
What becomes of justice if it is found to be objective and collective? Is it applicable to the individual, or do we run the risk of HoC's example?
Brevity is the soul of wit.
