⚖️ What is Justice ⚖️?
Theory of adequation 1️⃣➕1️⃣🟰2️⃣
"To say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is truth," says Aristotle.
In this somewhat tongue-twisting formula, the two elements involved in the act of knowing and in the definition of truth are present: the object and the subject.
Moreover, truth is understood as a relation of adjustment or correspondence between reality and what we say about it. Thomas Aquinas and the medieval philosophers expressed it with an excellent definition: "Adequacy between the understanding and the thing" (adaequatio rei et intellectus).
Theory of consensus 1️⃣➕1️⃣🟰2️⃣ or maybe not
The theory of consensus, as a means to reach truth, has its remote origin in Socrates, and has been developed in the twentieth century by Apel and Habermas.
It stresses the importance of dialogue as the best procedure for discovering the truth.
Of a free dialogue, free of coercion and interests, without ignorance of relevant data. Those who support this theory realize that they are asking for an ideal situation, which is very difficult to achieve.
They are also aware that consensus is not a criterion of truth, since throughout history there have given radically false majority consensus (slavery, women's inequality, death penalty, geocentrism...).
They ignore the fact that, rather than deriving truth from consensus, it is consensus that derives from the common recognition of truth.
But their contribution consists in showing that the best way to access the truth is to adduce one's own reasons, listen to those of others, and dialogue with rigor and serenity.
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