Friday, January 15, 2016
Defining justice in politics
The distinction John Rawls makes
leaving gender, race, and wealth out of ones decisions regarding
justice in politics, is an abstract idea or principle rather than an
affirmation of real human nature and the real living object. That is,
with Rawls and other philosophers, human nature is not really
involved in defining political justice. Marxism did this too,
rejecting human nature and making the idea that human beings
are infinitely malleable the fictional feature of political
philosophy. In other words, to these people there is no human nature.
Postmodernism goes in this rootless direction too seeing values as
infinitely malleable and relative.
What does politics look like when it
includes real human nature? Unlike other political structures,
traditional “ethnopluralism” adheres to the variety of people and to real human nature which
remains kin-centered, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, with
group-selection---the origin of real altruism---as the primary
unit of selection; and it discourages marauding imperialism. Political justice related to human nature calls for some sort of federalism not
fascism, but with an economic nationalism that protects the
independence of the regions and states, which would largely
contain ethnic cultures or ethnostates. This could be conservatively
adapted to the U. S. Constitution with its separation of powers and
states. That creates whatever peace is possible between humans. That defines political justice.
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