If we were to come to see justice as, like love, something which involves the transformation of existing interests and the creation of new, shared, interests, then we would be less inclined to judge every case of suffering through justice as a case of unmitigated disaster, and less inclined to think that every such case must unjustify the agent’s commitment to acting justly.
- Susan Mendus*, The Importance of Love in Rawls' Theory of Justice
*my political philosophy lecturer and supervisor at york(!)
from a Rawlsian perspective, justice and love are congruent in spite of suffering. but more than that, justice and love are congruent because of suffering. indeed, God's justice and love are congruent because of Christ's suffering!
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son." - John 3:16-18 (NIV)
links: political philosophy and theology (21 nov 08), education sentimentale (11 feb 09), justice and justification (23 feb 09)
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