Pynchon (esp AtD) & a sense of justice.

[Henry Musikar]

I figure that OBA indeed behaves well in deed, as otherwise someone (other
than Jules Siegel) would have given him up by now.

Henry Mu


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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Kohut
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 4:51 PM
To: pynchon -l
Cc: Brad Andrews; Pete Cleland; mark levine; me
Subject: Pynchon (esp AtD) & a sense of justice.


in 1971, a major work of political philosophy was published
and widely discussed--and still is.
It was John Rawls' "A Theory of Justice". 

That book ends like this (p587) :     
  "Thus to see our place in society from the perspective of this position
[the 'original position": all citizens REALLY equal in opportunity. Lots to
understand to get here] 
is to see it sub specie aeternitatas: it is to regard the human situation
not only from all social but from all temporal points of view. [!] The
perspective of eternity is not a perspective from a certain place beyond the
world, not the point
of view of a transcendent being; rather it is a certain form of thought and
feeling that rational persons can adopt within 
the world. And having done so, they can, whatever their generation, bring
together into one scheme all individual
perspectives and arrive together at regulative principles that can be
affirmed by everyone as he lives by them, each from his own standpoint.
PURITY OF HEART, IF ONE COULD ATTAIN IT, WOULD BE TO SEE CLEARLY AND TO ACT
WITH GRACE AND SELF-COMMAND FROM THIS POINT OF VIEW."

[capitalization mine].

Uh, anyone reminded of any recent book's ending but for
the not-perfectly-clear goggles?