Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.
Julian JaynesRead
Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession is its very essence. And this is possible only in a spatial metaphor of time.
Interpretation
Justice is shaped by our understanding of time, as it exists within our consciousness.
Julian Jaynes explores the idea that our perception of justice is inherently linked to our perception of time. He argues that justice is not just a social or moral concept but is deeply rooted in the way we experience time, suggesting that consciousness itself plays a pivotal role in how we interpret and deliver justice, making it a phenomenon that relies on a metaphorical understanding of time as a spatial experience.
In practice
In a discussion about the importance of timely justice in legal proceedings.
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.
Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use.
One does one's thinking before one knows what one is to think about.
You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.
I'll tell you something of the forbidden horrors she led me into - something of the age-old horrors that even now are festering in out-of-the-way corners with a few monstrous priests to keep them alive. Some people know things about the universe that nobody ought to know, and can do things that nobody ought to be able to do.
He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.
Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command in control, no army and calls it a war.
There may be a time when a country will have to wake up from a vision of happiness, when they have to realize that theirs is not the perfect idea, that there are many aspects that do not correspond to the reality of what is there, the real need and aspirations of the people.
I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done it--it, the physical act. I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.
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