Justice is indefinable! Part I

Justice is indefinable! Part I

Justice is indefinable! Part I

Justice is indefinable! Part I

Platonic thought purports for definitions of concepts. Subjects like love, right, justice and death are discussed in the Platonic Dialogues, but how far was Platonic thought successful in such enterprises?

For example, and we can take the underlying foremost subject of Plato's Republic namely justice as witness to the shortcomings of definitions and especially abstractions of references.

The Republic of Plato states that justice can be defined as rendering things to whom they belong'. The Platonic retort to this Socratic is, if a dagger belongs to a man and rendering it back to him is a just thing, then if we know that this man would do harm to his own self if we render his dagger to him, then should we render it back or not? If not then we are doing injustice to this man, for this man has the right to have his dagger back.

But our moral disposition prompted by our prior knowledge to the harm which would be done to the dagger owner, stops us from rendering the dagger back to its owner. Would this be unjust?

In fact, justice would be accomplished if we render back the dagger to its owner, regardless what he might do with it. What he would do with the dagger is apart from rendering the dagger. Here we have two actions completely different. One is to render what belongs to the owner his own property. The second is our moral assumption and our action not to render it back to its owner.

It would be unjust not to render what belongs to the person in question his due. What he intends to do with is another thing that has nothing to do with administering justice or the conception of justice itself. If we do not render his dagger to him then we are committing injustice. What he does with the dagger is then his own responsibility and not ours.

But, having said that. What is justice exactly? If a murderer kills his mother, and how do we administer justice? Capital punishment is perhaps the first thing that comes to our mind. But in most western countries now capital punishment is not administered.

Rather life imprisonment or a certain time spent in jail is sufficient for the judge who passes the sentence and in accordance with the law of these developed countries.

The Old Testament, as well as the Qur'an prescribe death penalty, life for life is the law of Scriptures. Would we administer justice then according to the Scriptures or according to the law of man and the personal judgment of the ruling judge?

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