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Research and Publications on Africa
Ricoeur’s reflection on justice may seem circumstantial and marginal. This essay shows however that this question rightly pertains to the development of Ricoeur’s philosophy, as it intends to be ontology of the “capable man” of sustaining the vehement affirmation of the priority of being over nothingness and of good over evil. Ricoeur removes justice from the unfruitful alternative between teleology and deontology so as to place its specificity in the “judgement in situation”. In the judicial arena, such a judgment may call for the same structure as the “ontological vehemence”, since it consists of translating into a concrete situation the idea of good connected to the idea of justice, making use of norms, after the example of a “practical wisdom”. The book aims at outlining the way to achieving justice. The judiciary act still keeps some poison of violence, given that it goes with it the right of bestowing a penalty, in such a way that it proves to be unsuited for perfectly guaranteeing its ideal of social peace. With the goal of ruling over this violence, it is necessary to incorporate in it the notion of love as “horizon” of its achievement and, consequently, to allow oneself to be touched by the “grace” of the spirit of forgiveness. In doing so, justice becomes part of a perspective of hope.
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