We might justly term the present Mammon-driven era in contemporary art the Koons Age.
Can metamodernism exhibit an "oscillation" between states or affects without (perhaps justly) being termed dialectical and postmodern?
Can it bill itself as being singularly involved with acts of sincerity and optimism without (perhaps justly) being termed single-entendre and therefore just a rehashing of modernism?
He fleshes out 'acting justly' in terms of acting communally (ix.31), and adds that wherever one is, one should live as a citizen of the cosmic city (x.15).15
WHAT price a second home in Corsica, France's justly-termed "Island of Beauty"?
But this still can't explain why we should in all conscience and justice return what we owe to the seditious bigot--here the most extensive and impartial sympathy would seem to dictate acting for the greatest happiness rather than justly in Hume's terms.
But as she justly points out, black Americans (the term she prefers) have a long tradition of maintaining high standards of manners under horrid conditions.
Osborne can justly say that Labour had three terms to rebalance the economy but failed to do so, and that it had three terms to regulate the City effectively but failed to do that either.
I believe that all of this is true, in its own terms, and the passage justly indicates the considerable value of the book's material, its urgency and its resistance to an element of murderous blather in politics, news and entertainment.
The term may indeed be justly descriptive of the limited possibilities for active political dissent that typify such societies, the restrictions that liberal government (in its fullest sense, involving its synergetic relationship with capitalism) places on adversarial politics, but it is surely very complacent concerning the violences of this 'reasonable' power system.
I am justly angry when he employs "Pharisee" as a term of abuse, in the manner of the New Testament: what did he think of Hillel, a better human being even than himself?
