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A Vision of Justice as Solidarity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2015

Douglas Sturm
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Existence in most instances is sustained by a perilously slight margin of sensitivity.

In moments such as these, if we be honest, we are brought to awareness more than ordinarily of the thick interdependency of our lives. We cannot be what we are, we cannot do what we do, we cannot accomplish what we accomplish apart from one another. Perhaps more than we can ever fully discern, our lives are but expressions, albeit creative expressions, of a communal matrix that sustains us, inspires us, and constitutes the origin of our dreams and yearnings, our obligations and our rights. We are members of each other. We belong together. That is the source of our joy in life, although that is, as well, the source of the tragedies of life, the dark side of our history that, on all too many occasions, makes us shudder. I do not mean this initial comment, please understand, as sheer sentimentality. It is, instead, both a political affirmation and a religious declaration, and it provides an opening for further reflections on the major theme of my remarks: a vision of justice as solidarity.

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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , 1996 , pp. 5 - 15
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Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 1996

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