本篇論文援引哲學家呂格爾的作品來連結「敘事」和「正 義」這兩個看似毫不相干的主題。儘管我們可能經常以既有的角度 來思考敘事和正義---個完整的故事或我們企圖應用的一個既有 的原則——筆者連結敘事與正義的方式，是把它們當作兩個並非既 定的用語，而是開放、未完成、並深受人類創意所影響的任務。 呂格爾把敘事行為壓縮成透過不和諧來尋求和諧。呂格爾的敘事 模型挑戰李歐塔的論證——我們是在失敗的後設敘事和不可共量之 間選擇。這是這是一種行為，也是選擇後的產物。同樣的，呂格爾 表示正義是一種想像判決的結果，在新的應用中，我們再也不能遵 循既有的規則，而必須把規則革新，以符合當前的案件。何謂正義 之決議不是事先決定的，而是在不和諧當中尋找和諧，在應用上， 這是把正義之敘事加以擴充和轉型的任務。正義的概念或許能表現 某些重大事實，但實際上，經常出現偶發的狀況。正義的邏輯可能 會有不同的發展。正義的邏輯是我們創造的敘事的邏輯；重點不在 不可避免，而在於人類的決定和判斷。筆者會從美國當前的法律脈 絡中舉例說明這個論證。

Professor of Law, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Abstract: This paper draws on the work of philosopher Paul Ricoeur to relate together the perhaps seemingly disparate themes of narrative and justice. While we may frequently think of narrative and justice from the perspective of their terms being established - a completed story or an existing principle that we attempt to apply - I want to interrelate narrative and justice as tasks, as terms not established but open, incomplete, and subject to human creativity. Ricoeur encapsulates the narrative act that as which seeks the concordant through the discordant. Ricoeur’s model of narrative challenges Lyotard’s argument that our choice is between failed metanarratives and the incommensurable. The narrative is not pre-given in either human or individual history but must be constructed. It is an act and the product of choice. Similarly, Ricoeur shows how the just is a result of an imaginative judgment, where in situations of new application we can no longer follow an existing rule but must renovate the rule to fit the case before us. Resolution of what is just is not predetermined but the search for the concordant across the discordant, a task of extending and transforming the narrative of justice as it is applied. The notion of justice may express certain large truths, but in practice there is much contingency. The logic of justice could have developed differently. The logic of justice is that of a narrative we create; it is not a matter of inevitability but of human decision and judgment. I illustrate the argument with examples from the current legal context in the United States.