It is again
pragmatics that makes us citizens of our small village or town,
that integrates all of us, Netizens included, in the global
world.
Judging justice
This short parenthesis in the discussion of politics can be
justified by the fact that justice is the object of both
politics and law. The practice of law is the practice of politics
on a smaller stage. Political action, involving a new concept of
law and justice, closer to the environment of industrial work,
established not only that all (or almost all) were equal in
respect to the law, but also that justice would take its own
course. In the course of history, the various moments of change
in the pragmatic framework were also moments of change in regard
to the justice system. In incipient political praxis, rulers
administered the law. Even today, a governor or president is the
court of last resort in some legal cases. And law, like
politics, relies on rhetoric, on language as the mediating
mechanism of concepts.
In the course of history, the various moments of change in the
pragmatic framework were also moments of change in regard to
what today we call justice. The more powerful applied their own
ideas of law under circumstances of incipient human practical
experiences. It was the role of the appointed leader, whether in
the magic of ritual, in tribes, in religion, in forms of
settlement, to judge matters under dispute.
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