Interesting views. The discussion you express reminds me of Booker T. Washington’s famous quote:

“The changeless laws of justice bind Oppressor with oppressed and sure as sin and suffering we march to fate abreast.”

Mary Baker Eddy understood that “Justice is the moral signification of law yet Dr. King said it best: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are all caught in a network of mutuality, tied to a single garment of destiny.” The Course on Miracles seems to say that we do no get into heaven” without dragging our brother with us. Similar to the need expressed by these philosophers that we help ourselves best when we help others. Mrs. Eddy wwrote: “love your enemies or you will not lose them and if you love them, you will help to reform them.”

I fight for freedom from harm in my professional life. Still, I did not find satisfactory answers from these philosophers for my task of using my professional facticity for transcendence of the system of justice that seems broken in so many ways. I have yet to find the philosopher that really helps me “build a moral system” within the confines of the rules we lawyers live under- the subjects and objects, circumstances and people. I imagine I will have to come up with my own brand of philosophy of law since even Dworkin and HLA Hart leave me wanting. The Stoics seem to have no room for feminine thought either but I enjoy reading the views toward being better people.

Thanks for the education. I live with the ethics of ambiguity as much as I live with the ethics of authenticity so I appreciate the thoughts here that are completely new to me. Thanks again for taking the time to think and write.