02 July 2003

Justice and the ideologies


No state is ever altogether bereft of justice. . . . Yet under the influence of the various ideologies the state may seriously misconceive its mandate and perform its jural task in gravely distorted fashion. . . . When the followers of the ideologies clash in the political arena, it is simplistic to assert that one side favors justice while the other does not. It is more accurate to observe that each party wants to see justice done but that each conceives of it differently, congruent with its own ideological presuppositions. . . . Each seeks a justice consistent with its core beliefs. The irony is that while justice seeks to resolve conflicts, such seeking of justice is itself a cause of conflict if animated by more than one of the ideologies.

Political Visions and Illusions, pp. 250, 252.

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