Broken Justice: Justice and Relativism in the Work of Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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Enrico Maestri
Enrico Maestri is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Law at the Department of Law, University of Ferrara (Italy). He is the current Holder of the academic courses of “Digital Law”, “Legal Theory”, and “Methodology and Legal Logic” at the Department of Law, University of Ferrara. He has a membership “as teacher in bioethics, ethics, and medical law of the IFT committee (International Forum of Teachers of Ethics, Bioethics and Medical Law) of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics”. He is a member of the Editorial Board of
BioTech Journal (MDPI Publishing); of the Editorial Board of theJournal of Ethics and Legal Technology (PadovaUP); of the OPBA – Ferrara University Body Animal Welfare – as expert in ethical and legal issues, University of Ferrara.
Abstract
In this essay I intend to examine and discuss three theses that recurrently appear in the works of Friedrich Dürrenmatt. I shall first identify the three theses in order to clarify the focus of my research. Dürrenmatt puts forward at least three theses to relating to 1. the paradoxical nature of human justice; 2. the demystification of apparent atheistic nihilism; 3. the neutralising effect of the contradiction inherent in divine justice. The conclusion I will try to reach is that if one accepts the three above-stated theses, justice is broken, but not irreparably.
About the author
Enrico Maestri is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Law at the Department of Law, University of Ferrara (Italy). He is the current Holder of the academic courses of “Digital Law”, “Legal Theory”, and “Methodology and Legal Logic” at the Department of Law, University of Ferrara. He has a membership “as teacher in bioethics, ethics, and medical law of the IFT committee (International Forum of Teachers of Ethics, Bioethics and Medical Law) of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics”. He is a member of the Editorial Board of BioTech Journal (MDPI Publishing); of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Ethics and Legal Technology (PadovaUP); of the OPBA – Ferrara University Body Animal Welfare – as expert in ethical and legal issues, University of Ferrara.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Secularization as a Paradigm of ‘Cross-Thought’
- Political Theology from Satan to Legitimacy
- Desacralized Law: Shakespeare and the Tragedy of Sovereignty
- Law, Politics, and Liberal Hope: A Literary and Anthropological Analysis of Secular Society
- An Uncertain Secularisation: Reproductive Rights in Contemporary Italy
- Research
- Spatial Vulnerability at the Spectral Threshold
- Digging Holes and Building Walls: Spatial Imaginations of the Law in Stories by Franz Kafka and Rachel Shihor
- Broken Justice: Justice and Relativism in the Work of Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- Law’s Dark Clarity: Hugo and the ‘Misery’ of Legal Categorizations
- Book Reviews
- Carlo Pelloso: Democracies and Republics Between Past and Future: From the Athenian Agora to e-Democracy, from the Roman Republic to Negative Power
- Björn Quiring: Trials of Nature: The Infinite Law Court of Milton’s Paradise Lost
- Heather James, Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare’s England
