do you think there is justice in this world? Is justice a human invention or discovery? Is justice subjective or objective? Many students think that justice is subjective, and that justice is only a design of human beings. If you hold this view, in fact, you fundamentally cancel the concept of justice. Because since justice is only a human design, it is also a time.

Of course, this is the oldest argument in human history. As early as Plato's time in ancient Greece, the question of whether there is justice in human society was discussed, and there were three schools of views at that time. The first school, Plato's false Socrates' mouth, thinks that justice exists objectively; There is also a second school, Salaxu Máthōs, who believes that justice is simply funny, but relative, and there is no absolute right or absolute wrong. Power is truth; There is also a third group who is skeptical. I don't know if there is justice. Maybe there is, maybe not. I doubt it.

But in my personal opinion, Plato completely refuted relativism with very, very strict logic in The Republic. Justice must be objective. According to my personal understanding, at least logically, empirically and analogically, we think that justice must exist objectively.

First of all, logically, do students often feel that something is unfair? Do you have this feeling? When you think something is unfair, there must be an objection in logic, which is called justice. Because if there is no concept of justice, you think that a thing is unfair and meaningless. If we think a thing is unfair, it must correspond to the concept of fairness. This is a question of logic. Logically speaking, when you think that there is no absolute right or absolute wrong in this world, you have made a major fallacy in logic. Because when you think that nothing is absolutely right or absolutely wrong, this view itself is absolute. You are advocating an absolute point of view.

The second is empiricism. In terms of experience, as I said just now, each of us will experience some unjust things, and whether each of us yearns for the existence of the concept of justice in our hearts, and we have noticed that all human feelings must have an objective object to project. I am thirsty, so there must be water; I'm hungry. So there must be food; Even if I have sexual desire, there must be the object of sexual desire. Why do humans have a sense of fairness? Because there must be an object that fairness points to, otherwise this feeling is meaningless.

Finally, analogy theory. I recently wrote a book called Circle Justice. I have been thinking about this problem. Can you draw the concept of circle? Can you draw a perfect circle? Students think that the concept of perfect circle exists or not. Is the concept of circle a human invention or discovery? Is the circle subjective or objective? Is objective. But all the circles drawn by people are not round. But does the concept of circle exist? Existence. We humans are constantly pursuing a perfect circle, but we can never draw a perfect circle in reality. Although we can't see justice, it doesn't mean that the concept of justice doesn't exist, and it is still our direction. Why do we all legal persons pursue fairness and justice? Because justice exists objectively, it constantly stirs our heartstrings and makes us yearn for it, although we can't reach it. This is called justice.

I like a Taiwanese drama called "The Distance between us and Evil" very much. There is a line in it that touched me very much. What did he say? He said that you don't have to believe what you see, but you have to believe what you can't see. You don't need to believe in the seen justice, but you need to believe in the invisible justice. Although we often can't see justice in real life, we still believe that justice exists. This is the purposeful interpretation of the law, and we should move towards justice, not evil.

Back to Plato's field just now, many people fell into a skepticism that there may be no justice in this world. Let me ask you a question now. Do all your epistemology come from reason or belief? Skepticism is the curse of the rational age. Have students been to Antarctica? Is there Antarctica in this world? What makes you think there is? It is possible that people around me organized a big conspiracy to lie to me about Antarctica. Have you found that all your epistemology is unstable if you hold a skeptical position? All our human thinking is actually based on belief. We believe that justice exists, and justice must exist objectively.