Making Justice Our Business

The founding premise of this book is that the nimbus of prestige, which once surrounded the idea of justice, has now been dimmed to such a degree that it is no longer sufficient to secure the possibility of a good conscience for those who undertake, in good faith, to make the world a better place in the spheres of politics and law. The many decent human beings who have noticed and experienced this diminishment of justice’s prestige find themselves in a thoroughly disenchanted existential situation. For them, the attempt to do justice without the illusion of being grounded in something beyond the sheer facticity of their own performances is a distinctly ethical theme, which cries out to be investigated in its own right. Heeding the cry, this book asks and attempts to answer the following fundamental ethical question: is a life in the law – even one spent in the pursuit of justice – worth living, and if so, how can a disenchanted person come to bear the living of it without constantly having to engage in self-deception? If Nietzsche is right that living without illusions is impossible for human beings, then the most important ethical implication of this essentially anthropological fact goes far beyond the question of what illusions we ought to choose. It must also include the question of whether we should succumb to that most seductive and pernicious of all illusions: namely, the belief that exercising great care and responsibility in choosing our illusions – which we might then call our ‘principles of justice’ – excuses us ethically for what we do to others in their name. The culmination of a 10 year legal-philosophical project, this book will appeal to graduate students, scholars and curious non-academic intellectuals interested in continental philosophy, critical legal theory, postmodern theology, the philosophy of human rights and the study of individual ethics in the context of law.

Daniel Defoe is an important figure in English literature because he is considered by many to be the founder of the English novel, his most famous being "Robinson Crusoe". This book is not a novel, but an exploration of the value, in Christain terms, of truth, integrity, and forgiveness.

Louis Porter born in Bangor Maine, back when the economic conditions were such that both parents were forced to work to survive as a family. The entire family moved to Skowhegan, Maine where I could fi nish high school. At an early age of seventeen, I joined the Merchant Marines and sailed on cargo ships to many European and South America ports over a two year period, married and enlisted in the U.S. Navy Air Force based in Corpus Christi Texas. Completed college work at Texas A&M with honors in Petroleum Engineering. Went to work with ARCO as a petroleum engineer and handled sales of the companys oil and gas products. Later, I formed Daleo Petroleum and began building underground storages to handle sales, storage facilities and set up pipeline distribution of all liquid gases like ethane & propane for Mid-America Pipeline. We were fi rst to put propane on the Chicago Cotton Exchange as a commodity. I became Bch & CEO of three separate public companies dealing in Rare Earth, Gold Mining, Drilling for oil in Canada and the United States. Brought President Ford to Canada for company meetings and traveled all over North & South America & Europe for business, hunting and fi shing. Beat President Ford out of $14 playing gin and made him sign the bills. I bagged a grizzly bear in British Columbia and caught many sail fi sh off Baja. Wrote & sold 5 novels over the internet as E-Books twenty five yrs. ago.