Brianne Donaldson
“To Sir, With Love”?: On Grounding Protests in Skeptical Politics
by Brianne Donaldson The duty of tolerance is our finite homage to the abundance of inexhaustible novelty which is awaiting the future, and to the complexity of accomplished fact which…
Read MoreImaginative Justice: Summary Questions
by Brianne Donaldson This essay is one of a 6-part series titled “What is Justice?”:First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Justice seems to be a relentless exercise of moral imagination mixed with some…
Read MoreA Hearse On the Highway
by Brianne Donaldson The enjoyment of power is fatal to the subtleties of life. Ruling classes degenerate by reason of their lazy indulgence in obvious gratifications. —A. N. Whitehead Adventures…
Read MoreSocial Justice: Making Visible the Unseen
by Brianne Donaldson This essay is one of a 6-part series titled “What is Justice?”:First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Social justice puts flesh on the bones of Rawls’ principles of fairness discussed in…
Read MoreOthered Bodies, Social Contract Theory, and the Expansion of Justice
by Brianne Donaldson This essay is one of a 6-part series titled “What is Justice?”:First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth In the previous reflection, I examined several types of divine justice (i.e. transcendent or natural…
Read MoreTranscendent Justice or Human Judgment: Where Do The Norms of Justice Come From?
by Brianne Donaldson This essay is one of a 6-part series titled “What is Justice?”:First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth In the previous installment, I speculated on what is weighed in the two…
Read MoreThe Scales of Justice: What Exactly Is Being Weighed?
by Brianne Donaldson This essay is one of a 6-part series titled “What is Justice?”:First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Lady Justice is the only cardinal virtue to be memorialized in stone and paint.…
Read MoreWhat is Justice? We Know But We Don’t Know
By Brianne Donaldson This essay is one of a 6-part series titled “What is Justice?”:First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Like the words “God” or “love,” the term “justice” does not explain, but…
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