This is a lexical entry that gathers the technical meaning of this term in Shahrur across his various books, and connects its multiple usages.
This entry belongs to the Shahrurian lexicon. For thematic reading, one may refer to Shahrur’s major themes and shared concepts.
Meaning in Shahrur
Injustice is a deliberate, conscious act that comes after recognizing what is right, and it consists of placing a thing in other than its proper place on purpose. It is therefore linked to freedom and moral responsibility, and it appears in the social sphere when it turns into collective injustice that leads to destruction.
Distinctions
- It is not an incidental mistake or ignorance, because injustice presupposes knowledge and deliberation
- It is not merely political despotism, but broader than that because it includes every act that places a thing in other than its proper place and leads to destruction.
Places in his books
- The State and Society: injustice in Shahrur is not merely an error, but a conscious, deliberate decision after knowing what is right, that is, placing a thing in other than its proper place on purpose. He therefore links it to responsibility and freedom, and makes the destruction of villages the result of the predominance of collective injustice
What accompanies it and differs from it
- Adam and the villages explain the transition from humanity to social destiny
- Adam represents the first human transition
- Unicity produces injustice, despotism, and destruction
- Unicity and despotism lead to destruction
- History and society judge unicity as injustice and destruction
- Freedom and moral awareness explain human action and responsibility for injustice
- The civil state and society are the horizon of history because pluralism and freedom defeat unicity
- Injustice is a deliberate, conscious act
- Injustice is a conscious act that leads to destruction
- Injustice requires freedom
- Injustice means placing a thing in other than its proper place
- The destruction of villages is linked to collective injustice