Event overview
The Unit for Global Justice presents a paper by Professor Alan Norrie, School of Law, King's College London
This paper develops a meta-ethical inquiry into the nature and possibility of international justice. It sees the understanding of such justice as caught between two poles. On one hand, there is a naively optimistic vision of its possibility in a world of nation-states and power politics; on the other, an overly reductive and pessimistic account of justice as only that of the victor. The ethical truth lies between these two positions, in an aporetic middle ground. The paper addresses its concerns by constructing a debate between Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers out of their different positions in Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem" and Jaspers's "The Question of German War Guilt". What emerges rather is an uneasy relationship between the legal and the ethical, where the latter both draws on and disturbs legal categories.
Dates & times
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24 Nov 2008 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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