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Nov. 14th, 2023 06:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timeletsHe[Ricoeur] derives this initial ethical understanding of institution from Arendt’s concept of “power in common” that is contrasted with domination (“power over”) and that is realised by a plurality of people acting in concert. ...
Because acting in concert with unknown third parties needs time to unfold, institutions are needed. Institutions thereby provide the neces- sary temporal dimension for the power in common to endure, which lies at the basis of any political community.
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Ricoeur argues that the just faces in two directions: towards the good, connected with the pre-dialogic, ethical sense of justice, and towards the legal, connected with the moral rule of justice (Ricoeur 1992, p. 197).
--- Reijers, Coeckelbergh. Narrative and Technology Ethics.
In this respect, good institutions bridge time, i.e. form social infrastructure the same water reservoirs form physical infrastructure. Need to find a related quote from Hegel that good judges/courts represent infinity.
