Which ever it was, and whether they actually said our "order is preferable to
just desserts", the restaurant service must have been bad for them to depart
from their usual neo-Kantian positions. Taken in context, their statement
"order is preferable to justice" should not be used to construct a theory of
the relation between order and justice or to abuse to waiters generally, nor
confused with later similar statements, such as by A. Hitler at Nuremberg.
However, point-missing remarks on the so-called principle of charity are always
welcome.
DL
From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, 8 June 2017, 1:46
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: query on Goethe
Maybe it was Schiller rather than Goethe ? Not sure
On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 8:19 PM, Adriano Palma <Palma@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
To anyone &/or everyone better read than me, does anybody recall where Goethe
stated that (I forgot the real wording) order is preferable to justice?
