Justice Incarnate: A Dialogue Between Hegel, Rawls, and Taleb

Setting: A wood-paneled study beyond time. Bookshelves sag with the weight of thought.
G.W.F. Hegel sits with gravitas;
John Rawls, thoughtful and restrained.
Midway through, Nassim Nicholas Taleb enters, uninvited but entirely at home.

Dialogue

HEGEL

Herr Rawls, your theory begins by abstracting man from his place, his family, his tradition—no past, no story, no scars. But Spirit becomes real only in time, not behind a veil. What is justice if not freedom embodied in custom, ritual, and contradiction?

RAWLS

Professor Hegel, I admire your moral historicism. But history has too often canonized injustice. My veil of ignorance is not escapism—it is moral surgery. A way to imagine what justice demands, without inherited bias. From there, we can build what ought to be.