From: kjrufo-AT-bellsouth.net Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 09:52:55 -0500 Subject: Re: Pinochet and disappeared Daniel F. Vukovich wrote: > Justice, like Truth, is but a mobile army of metaphors. Surely we all know > this, and surely we can all agree that -- therefore -- politics should be > kept separate from this concept-metaphor, at least politics in a social, > institutional sense. Dont we all realize how inherently dangerous, if not > evil, it is to actually try to put into practice ideas or values like > Justice? Mixing politics and justice is a recipe for the Gulag, esp if you > throw some Hegel into the mix. > > As Hayek and Foucault and of course Nietzche have definitively shown, there > is no such thing as social justice. To think that there is, let alone to > desire to see Pinochet tortured unto death, is in the last analysis part of > a primitive, herd or tribal mentality that we ought to leave out of > eternally recurring history/time. > > Daniel Vukovich > English; The Unit for Criticism > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign While I have mixed (and rather inconclusive) feelings about the Pinochet discussion, I do take some exception to a general Nietzschean disregard for the potential of social justice. Not attempting to be overly argumentative (well, yet, at least :P), but doesn't that sort of thinking open oneself to a rather unimpressive nihilism? Maybe I misunderstand the use of "social justice" as terminology... Is it your contention that a "moral" justice cannot exist or that an "ethical" justice cannot be imposed without consequences? Ken Rufo Speech and Communication University of Georgia
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