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This is a trial ... Aziz Yardimli, Idea Publishing House, Istanbul aziz@ideayayinevi.com

Here are some notes regarding the concept of Justice

1) The relationship of Justice to morality is a tricky point. Justice is a matter both of Morality and Law. But basically Justice is related to the Law; to Morality it is related indirectly through the Law.

2) Morality is a matter of Conscience, since the criterion to judge any action regarding its rightness or wrongness belongs to Conscience, and that absolutely because Conscience is absolutely free in judging the matters of what is Good (or Bad).

3) So when a Judge judges an action about its legal bearings, if he/she looks at his Conscience, he may find different things than when he looks at the Laws. Justice is a matter of Law, not of subjective Conscience. Conscience enters into Law when it is being produced (in the Congress etc.).

4) The relativity of Conscience makes the Laws relative. But Laws are open to development, because Conscience always develops and that for the better. The permanent improvement of Laws can not to be considered as their relativity — inspite of the common view of the fact.

5) Moral development is possible, or rather necessary on the basis of Freedom (of Conscience, and therefore of the Will). Historically, Freedom in its absolute sense, that is without any hindrance whatsoever over individial Conscience, exists only in cultures which have seperated the political will from the religious authority. So, in morally underdeveloped cultures Justice too is underdeveloped. (Its process can never be an isolated one because of its connectedness with other concepts like Freedom, Conscience, Will.)

6) This is not unjustice, since Justice is a concept which can only develop in the minds of people and any thing in its developmental phase can not be considered as its being contrary to its fully developed state. So what the world needs is Freedom to make fully developed not only its system of Justice, but also of Morality, Ethics and Law.

7) The realisation of Justice in the world is never full as long as it is in the process of development (like all concepts). This does not make them unattainable ideals, for the very concept of development has the realisation of ideal as its content, import, and meaning, otherwise it is not a development at all. We may drop the concept of 'development' from human reality, but then why not drop everything else?