Juridico-moral

The child therefore distinguishes between a rule that is true in itself and mere custom, present or future. And yet he is all the time enslaved to custom and not to any juridico-moral reason or reality distinct from this custom and superior to it.

Only in an America in which the normative substructure of systems of civil law have strayed from those of the juridico-moral systems of the old dominant religious discourse could disestablishment at the level of mundane lawmaking become visible.

However, uncovering the dialogue (largely implicit) between Levinas's and Nietzsche's critiques of juridico-moral responsibility allows a fuller appreciation of why such revisions matter.