Tag: Justice
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Beyond Guilt 5 – Responsibility After Guilt: The Ethical Life Transfigured
A Life Beyond Guilt We began this journey with a radical claim: that guilt cannot be the foundation of ethics, because guilt depends on an illusion—that we could have done otherwise. But if no appearance comes from nothing, if the self is not the source of Being but its site, then guilt falls, and with…
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Beyond Guilt 4 – The Source of Action: Love as Recognition, Not Will
When Control Falls Away, What Remains? So far, we have seen the collapse of the traditional moral structure:– Guilt falls, because what-is cannot not be.– Blame falls, because no one is the author of Being.– Punishment falls, because justice is not retribution, but coherence. But this raises a deeper question still:If will is not sovereign,…
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Beyond Guilt 3 – Justice Without Blame: Law, Protection, and the Structure of Response
When Guilt Falls, What Holds Society Together? The objection arises naturally:Even if guilt is an illusion, isn’t justice still necessary? Don’t we still need laws, boundaries, consequences?What happens to society when we no longer condemn? The answer is not the disappearance of justice, but its transformation.Justice does not vanish—it becomes response rather than retribution, protection…
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