How not to assign mercy.

I found this and see it is very unclear. But it represents a possible idea.


Mercy is perhaps the closest approximation we can get to justice. Maybe “justice” if you’re God is the same as mercy but for the rest of us, our understandings of the situation are so incomplete that mercy - which is oriented to the infinite and stemming from the infinite, is closer to understanding (or knowledge of not-understanding) because it serves a more regulative role. Justice presupposes that (to give each one his due) that we have a workable knowledge of what is “due” to each one - that we know what each “one” is and all those other things. Mercy is the third term of the dialectical process that must be preceded by justice and mercy, however, because sheer, empty, abstract mercy to begin with has not yet become explicit and particularized and one might even say, balanced or rooted in something. Who ever thought I would be Hegelian???