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    It is not the case that Justice has no horizon of expectation, whether regulative or messianic

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    • 1.Rawls's 'regulative ideal' of justice as fairness does not defer action but orients present deliberation without claiming final realization.
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    • 2.A regulative horizon functions as a standard of critique, not a postponement—enabling us to identify injustice now precisely because we can measure against it.
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    • 3.Derrida conflates the temporal structure of a regulative ideal with messianic waiting, collapsing a distinction Kant carefully maintained between constitutive and regulative use of reason.
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    • 1.Ernst Bloch's concrete utopia holds that anticipatory consciousness transforms present practice rather than suspending it in indefinite expectation.
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    • 2.If justice requires no horizon whatsoever, it loses the comparative framework needed to distinguish more just from less just decisions under urgency.
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    • 1.A horizon implies both an opening and a limit that defines an infinite progress or period of waiting
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    • 2.Justice does not wait; a just decision is always required immediately
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    • 3.The moment of decision is a finite moment of urgency that cannot furnish itself with unlimited knowledge
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