On Apr 25, 2010, at 10:59 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> If "justice" is important, then it is important to be clear that the
> concept has no philosophicqal or theoretical foundation. As long as it
> is assumed that there is something 'objective' or 'real' out there
> named Justice, we are caught in an ahistorical world of mere
> subjectivity, with no actual basis for collectively attempting to
> change
> the world.
>
> We need to see justice as a historical abstraction, abstract ed from
> practice, and meaningful only as a shared principle; it is a raising
> to
> theory of what we and other humans find ourselves doing, but it has no
> independent reality.
Every revolution in history has been a protest against injustice. Since Carrol believes there is no such thing as justice, he has no choice but to believe that every revolution in history was based on a mere "historical abstraction."
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos