Tell me a wrong which may not be justified. Justification and rationalization are the archetypical code upon which our civilization has been organized. From the reasoning of bureaucracy to the judgments of courts are based upon justification. Games are, of course, played within the rules. Those who play the game and those who observe the game remain committed to the rationality of game. Does it mean that there is no other virtue required to be observed except the rules and its justification? What is so creative about the rules? Does it follow the change perceptible in our world? Can it ever be adaptable with organic development taking place in our world of reality. We talk about training the skills to manipulate the rules and its interpretation. But in the end, the game is being played within the rule. All manipulated meaning is attributable within the rules. The question of truth, justice, or virtue keeps revolving around the rules. This is how modernity rationalized, positivized, and secularized the substantive questions of life and transformed them into formalized and spectral life. And the question of care, feeling, emotions, compassions have lost its relevance in modern life.
Aristotle once wrote in his Nicomachean Ethics that there are four significant virtues for human beings, namely Prudence, Temperance, Justice, and Courage. There are a few judges who have courage and sense of justice, both. Hon'ble Mr. Justice Rohinton Nariman has been truly an exemplar judge and erudite historian, theologian and philologist, a great scholar of music as well as a courageous and meticulous jurist of our country. He did his Master of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1980-81 and taught by one of the finest jurists of the last century, Roberto Unger. He became Senior Advocate in 1993 in the age of 37 and also served as Solicitor General of India in 2011 before he was elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court of India in 2014. He delivered many landmark judgments, including Shreya Singhal v. Union of India. There are a few people with whom time moves too fast, but to count that experience takes ages. Justice Rohinton Nariman is one of those great jurists with whom a meet...
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