Literary notes about justification (AI summary)
The term "justification" in literature is a versatile device that can serve to rationalize actions, reinforce moral or philosophical arguments, and even validate societal systems. In some works it underpins critical debates about origins and tradition, as when mystical or religious practices are reexamined and recontextualized [1, 2]. In other texts, it becomes an internal mechanism by which characters defend their actions or cope with guilt, providing a framework that links personal experience with ethical or aesthetic values [3, 4]. At the same time, authors employ it in broader discourses—whether critiquing economic systems, questioning the basis of legal and political authority, or even exploring the limits of scientific reasoning—thus rendering justification an essential tool for connecting ideas and actions across multiple dimensions of human thought [5, 6, 7].
- There is, then, some justification for the anti-Cabalists' contention that what we know to-day as the Cabala is not of purely Jewish origin.
— from Secret societies and subversive movements by Nesta Helen Webster - I do not here refer to the act of justification by faith in Christ.
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozer - He requested permission to justify himself—putting his justification as an act of respect to my mistress.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins - It was only a mental justification he was seeking from himself—something that would enable him to bear his state as a righteous man.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser - I am attempting an economic justification of virtue.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Nietzsche - Herein lay, in fact, the main justification of the Capitalist System.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes - One need only admit that public tranquillity is in danger and any action finds a justification.
— from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy
