Adjudication between conflicting normative universes that do not
share the same vocabulary, standards of rationality, and moral
commitments cannot be resolved by recourse to traditional
principles. Such cases are always in a sense tragic. And what is
called for, in our pluralistic and conflictual world is not to be
found, as many would suppose, in an impersonal set of procedures
with which all participants could be treated as having rationally
agreed. The very idea of such a neutral system is an illusion.
Rather, what is needed, Julen Etxabe argues in this book, is a
heightened awareness of the difficulty of judgment. The Experience
of Tragic Judgments draws upon Sophocles play Antigone in order to
consider this difficulty and the virtues that attend its
acknowledgment. Based on the transformative experience that the
audience undergoes in engaging with this play what is proposed is a
reconceptualization of judgment: not as it is generally thought to
occur in a single isolated moment, like the falling of an axe, but
rather as an experience that develops in and through space and
time."
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