Judgment and philosophy of action

How to judge the action?

Judge evil

Who judges slowly surely judge. Sophocles

It is not easy for philosophy to confront the concept of "evil" . The image of the butterfly effect * is ideal to illuminate the real impact of each action. How to know in fact, the actual impact of a human act through time ? How do I know if an injustice today is not enriched justice tomorrow ?

* a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil cause a tornado in Texas

Declare a particular act as belonging to the "wrong" is a value judgment . This decision essentially concerns the human species. Nothing formal in creation seems to be able to authenticate . Then we must question the validity of these human standards.

The man, judge of the world

From the moment it was formed, the human species has acquired the faculty of judgment . Since man does not hesitate to do so. He considers his actions but also the way the world is realized . It must still quite a plumb to judge without knowing the divine intentions. When his " secrets " beyond our understanding ... When we, ourselves, the result of this way of change.

The beauty of human creativity

The way the world is built, seems to show that no human judgment is based on the solid. We cut the time in millennia to age, in seconds, but life goes afloat tense. Every action performed, the result of a number of previous actions. Every act influences a much later actions which it is impossible to anticipate the result qualitatively . Every human activity, resulting in effects on the next action. These influence the following acts and so on. It is impossible to imagine the overall result of the initial action . Impossible to know if it will be rather positive or rather negative consequences. Action called "evil" may well create more "good" a so-called " good" Action ... And vice versa.

The example of Saint Francis of Assisi

Youth of Saint Francis of Assisi was rather dissipated . Born into a wealthy family, he led a dissolute life . He appreciates the war, honors etc. . This conduct condemned by the moral is it not yet led to his conversion ? His Holiness does not it results from a number of "bad acts" suffered or committed? Theoretically, any judgment on an action or event is necessarily arbitrary and subjective .

The validity of the judgment

Practice trumps theory

I live around the development of the great principle that nature has been happy and good man, but that society corrupts and makes it miserable. J.J.Rousseau

In theory, therefore, all human judgment is invalid. In practice against, we must judge . To become a "humanity", our species must learn to gauge his actions. It was open to the art of the forbidden, criticism, morality, ethics, law ... The man had to weigh his actions, those of others and accept also be judged by him. This is probably one of the keys to our evolution.

Art by submitting our actions to ax the " good" and "evil", we leave the realm of nature . Majority preferring human action "good" to "evil" actions we evolve naturally towards the good. The judgment is therefore essential for the development of our species.

The paradox of judgment

Judge " the injugeable "

The absolute and the reality

By oneself, indeed, is actually evil. Buddha

Here we are then in the presence of a paradox . In absolute terms, the qualitative judgment on an act proves artificial and arbitrary. But in practice, we need to think otherwise. Man in life is to progress and advance humanity in a * very specific meaning . It must therefore play the game the validity of the judgment.

* in the sense of the good, just, moral, ethics ..

The human being must be a value judgment on his actions and those of others. Ie expose to the light of good and evil . The just and the unjust . Legal and illegal (we speak of universal values ​​) .

Prudent judgment

For cons, the arbitrariness of judgment committed to the care and tolerance . The " evil deeds " should be considered with awareness, clarity, measurement and compassion. The cunning of reason * indicates somehow the best way to tackle the problem.

* A wonderful concept finds Hegel

We should not judge without understanding or understand without judging. Evil must actually be deciphered, analyzed and explained. But we must also fight, judge and condemn . We must punish and treat to meet the requirements of the sense of humanity . Punish without understanding has always been the best way to perpetuate evil.

2001

necessity of evil

Le bon juge condamne le crime sans condamner le criminel. Sénèque