In preparation for my Spring semester course, Contemporary Theories of Justice, please share your reflections on what you take justice to be, viz. let me know what you believe to be the substance and form of justice.
A Black Man's response to Black death
I've observed posts that represent attempts to deploy reasoned questions and/or arguments to explain the most recent killings of two Black men in particular. I'm convinced that these reasoned reflections on unreasonable behavior that is grounded in irrational presuppositions, more often than not, lead to an intellectual impasse at best. Reason and rationality are fractured in the presence of tragedy and our desire for explanation is best served through an embrace of human actions shot through with contradiction and unresolved conflict. I was struck with paralyzing silence in the presence of these tragedies and accepted this status as a measure of the profundity of these events. It is my humble suggestion that what we can do for each other is to actively love one another intentionally and directly, commit to extending the dignity and integrity of all without legislating their right to these virtues by our normative standards of acceptance. It is through these lived virtues that ...
Arguably, the two most substantive accounts of justice come via Plato and Rawls. The former consists of an internal ordering of whose harmony is made consistent by reason. The latter looks to external mechanisms to bring about fairness for all those who are pejoratively referred to as the "unwashed masses." I will take Plato's view as a necessary prerequisite for a proper account of justice.
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