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Reconciliation as a Political Value
Author(s) -
Moellendorf Darrel
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of social philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.353
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1467-9833
pISSN - 0047-2786
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9833.2007.00375.x
Subject(s) - injustice , politics , pride , delicacy , value (mathematics) , democracy , praise , deed , sociology , soul , law , environmental ethics , immorality , aesthetics , political science , psychology , social psychology , morality , philosophy , ecology , theology , machine learning , computer science , biology
[T]he same men who are held so sternly in check interpares by custom, respect, usage, gratitud e...a nd who on theother hand in their relations with one another show themselves so resourceful in consideration, self-control, delicacy, loyalty, pride, and friendship—once they go outside, where the strange, the stranger is found, they are not much better than uncaged beasts of pre y...[ T]hey goback to the innocent conscience of the beast of prey, as triumphant monsters who perhaps emerge from a disgusting procession of murder, arson, rape, and torture, exhilarated and undisturbed of soul, as if it were no more than a students’ prank, convinced they have provided the poets with a lot more material for song and praise. —Friedrich Nietzsche 1 This Constitution provides a historic bridge between the past of a deeply divided society characterised by strife, conflict, untold suffering and injustice, and a future founded on the recognition of human rights, democracy and peaceful co-existence and development for all South Africans, irrespective of colour, race, class, belief or sex. —The Interim Constitution of South Africa 2