After Justice: On the Conditions of Possibility of Justice in the Present

In so called “developing countries ” justice, or rather the lack of it, has become a dominant theme in the lives of millions of citizens. Both, in national and international arenas, the citizens of these countries have to face situations of brutal violation of human rights, extremely unjust distribution of their nations’ wealth, generalized corruption of their leaders and institutions (e.g. the administration of justice, public health care, etc.), unfair trade with the economic powers of the world, etc. These conditions make one think if perhaps the torch of justice has been extinguished in these nations. But then, how this has come about, i.e., what are the conditions of possibility of such unjust social order? Can we recover the torch of justice? How can we keep its flame alive? Do we need a new social order for this to happen? In order to tackle these and other related questions, we started a project two years ago, based on the principles and concepts of interpretive systemology (López-Garay, 1986; Fuenmayor, 1991a,b). Our research has been focused o