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    Justice is always to come in the future and is never present — Carmelics
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    Justice is always to come in the future and is never present

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    • 1.If a decision has not followed a rule, it is unjust
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    • 2.If a decision has followed a rule with no foundation, it is again unjust
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    • 3.If a decision followed a rule calculably, it failed to respect the singularity of the case and is again unjust
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    • 1.Aristotle's phronesis demonstrates that practical wisdom achieves genuine justice in particular cases through cultivated moral perception, not infinite deferral.
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    • 2.A virtuous judge who perceives the salient features of a situation and responds with equitable judgment instantiates justice as a present achievement, not a perpetual absence.
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    • 3.Derrida's trilemma in P1-P3 commits a false exhaustion by collapsing the Aristotelian middle ground between mechanical rule-following and groundless decision.
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    • 1.Rawls's reflective equilibrium establishes that justice can be provisionally realized when principles and considered judgments achieve sufficient coherence under idealized conditions.
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    • 2.If justice were structurally always deferred, reform movements that produced measurable reductions in domination and arbitrary power could not count as progress toward justice, which contradicts our most confident moral data points.
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    Derrida calls the first aporia, “the epoche of the rule” (Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice, pp. 22–23). Our most common axiom in ethical or political thought is that to be just or unjust and to exercise justice, one must be free and responsible for one’s actions and decisions. Here Derrida in effect is asking: what is freedom. On the one hand, freedom consists in following a rule; but in the case of justice, we would say that a judgment that simply followed the law was only right, n
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