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> Rawls is the guy who is probably most responsible for corruption of the word "justice", which used to mostly mean "the proper administration of law". Oh, yo
by guerrilla 4y ago
> Rawls is the guy who is probably most responsible for corruption of the word "justice", which used to mostly mean "the proper administration of law".
Oh, you mean before Aristotle? Yeah, those Orwellian Greeks... and Buddhists, and Muslims and that damned Confucius. Plato should have died with Socrates, I agree. Down with the gadflies!
- cato_the_elder 4y ago> Oh, you mean before Aristotle? Yeah, those Orwellian Greeks The word "justice" comes from Latin, not Greek. > Muslims Muslims have their own vocabulary for these things, related words include "Adl", "Insaf", and "Qada".
- guerrilla 4y ago> The word "justice" comes from Latin, not Greek. And here I thought it came from English and that the Romans would have used iūstitia for the same universally debated concept. You learn something new every day.