Abstract

MEDINA DELGADILLO, Jorge. Some Critiques that Can Be Made from Levinas to the Notion of ‘Justice’ of Paul Ricœur and John Rawls. arete [online]. 2015, vol.27, n.1, pp.87-99. ISSN 1016-913X.

The well known conference of Paul Ricœur ‘Love and Justice’, pronounced when he received Leopold Lucas award in 1989, shows a dialectical tension between those two notions, and searches deeper in the philosophical -and even theological- basis that reveals love as rectification and safeguard of justice; without love, justice would be cruel, utilitarian and, paradoxically, unfair, remembering us the old Roman adage: "summum ius, summa iniuria". Moreover, Levinas, in his "Talmudic Lesson on Justice", compiled after in New Talmudic Readings, presents a less intuitive position, but no less interesting: justice is the place of forgiveness and love, it becomes humane everything it touches, and that’s why it doesn’t need correction; a justice that needed love, had maybe never been true justice. Here lies a critic that complements and improves both, the theory exposed by Paul Ricœur and its Rawlsian basis.

Keywords : Ricœur; Levinas; justice; love; Rawls.

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