...and it's a quite significant change in my opinion. I exchanged the first and last words of the former "Duty resolves an individual to do a good" sentence, which is how I measure justice as defined, resulting in the new arrangement, "Good resolves an individual to do a duty." This further changes the context sentence to, "Autonomy becomes community by justice or protects right by good from people to approve our collaborations." The idea of mixing the deontological idea of duty with the virtue ethic of good in order to create an ethical defense of right seems simply stunning to me right now. This points towards a way of more tightly constraining ethical imperatives, using "good" as a resolving motivator of duty on behalf of right. "Right" in Poemworld is an well-supported argument in defense of and advocating for a value, e.g. the right to free speech. Defending right by a duty initiated by good seems to me to be a way to exclude ideas like "redemptive violence" as well as a path to linking up with ideas from Christ's admonition to "turn the other cheek", Gandhian non-violent resistance and the U.S. civil rights movements. It also advances an idea I have of replacing the concept of violent revolution as a means to individual liberation and human freedom with a notion of "social implosion" or the collapsing of the "master-servant" dichotomy into the stable center of free people. Whew!
...just to add, this is a nice way for me to derive "might for right" inside of Poemworld. It boils down to "Autonomy... protects right by good resolving an individual to do a duty" which captures nicely what I've always felt is the proper relationship between right, good and duty. "Might" equals both good and duty here.
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