Original title: "Three Brigades": What kind of justice and whose responsibility?
In Hume's view, if there is no justice, society will inevitably disintegrate immediately, and everyone will fall into a state of barbarism and isolation. Fortunately, the movie "The Three Brigades" exudes the brilliance of justice from the inside out. To a certain extent, it also In the moral inquiry that the right path in the world is subject to vicissitudes of life, we question the responsibilities and responsibilities of ordinary individual lives. Furthermore, "The Third Brigade" is by no means limited to portraying the group portraits of the characters in the Third Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Public Security Bureau, but more importantly, the film interprets the inquiry and watch of micro-individual justice and justice from beginning to end. Here, In this sense, it obviously also raises a quite interesting philosophical issue, that is, what kind of justice does the film's intention imply, and who is responsible?
What is justice? In "Politics", Aristotle further developed and improved Plato's concept of justice and confirmed the value of justice as an individual virtue. It can be seen that the so-called justice should first come from the persistence of individual good, or in other words, some concrete practice of the concept of good, that is, the obligation to be able to defend good by one's own strength. Therefore, the recognition of the prior behavior of justice as it should be comes from the individual's interpretation of the moral principles that social production practices should have. In short, the subject of human life has the inevitable requirement to maintain justice. Under this kind of scrutiny, the protagonist Cheng Bing, played by Zhang Yi in "The Third Brigade", has gradually evolved from his duty as a policeman to the embodiment of justice who has been chasing the murderer for more than ten years. In essence, it is an individual versus good person. of persistence. Of course, this kind of self-grasping based on goodness is said in Buddhism to have self-grasping as the root and give rise to all kinds of troubles. If you don’t hold on to the self, there will be no troubles. It is not difficult to see that from the captain of the three brigade, who was in glory for a while, to the prisoner, and then to As an ordinary person after being released from prison, Cheng Bing has the unbreakable justice obsession of a people's policeman in his heart. As Carl Friedrich said, the idea of justice (eidos) is a transcendent existence whose existence cannot be proven by the senses. Therefore, Cheng Bing has a life background of working hard for justice, and regards it as a moral standard and inner law that transcends daily experience. This also makes the process of chasing the murderer across seven provinces and thousands of miles just to find the truth believable and sensible.
In fact, in addition to the evidence of individual goodness, justice also manifests itself as a kind of group kindness, that is, the good of community, which is the maintenance of public interests among groups. In a word, the public interest of the community is a kind of supreme good, which can also be called the greatest justice. Whether it is Rawls's concept of community or Sandel's concept of constitutive community, they all point to the goodness of the community that cannot be forgotten in the orderly development of society. At this level, I have to say that Chen Sicheng’s team turned this non-fiction story of more than a thousand words into gold. In the story, Wang Dayong died unexpectedly during the interrogation, and the members of the third brigade were imprisoned and became prisoners of the rank and file. To be precise, everyone in the Third Brigade is faced with the realistic proposition of broken families, no future, and the disappearance of self-meaning. But fortunately, the movie gave the Third Brigade, this once invincible heroic team, still chanting after hitting rock bottom. The image of justice and justice in the heart that never stops running. Who can predict the success of heaven and man? Good and bad fortunes are unpredictable. For ordinary people, it may be difficult to express their passion after being imprisoned. But the engineering soldiers and the three brigades behind them are the most powerful proof. It can be seen that the good of the three brigade groups can eventually be transformed into the good of the social public interest community. In this dimension, justice has become a moral order that individuals and groups must defend. After all, once the goodness of a just community ceases to exist, it will be even more difficult to maintain overall social fairness.
Therefore, if we want the goodness of the social justice community to become a guarantee for people's good lives in a larger sense, we need to firmly adhere to the concept of moral responsibility. This is the key point why the character Cheng Bing is so real and deeply touches the hearts of the audience.Whether he is the captain of the Third Brigade or an ordinary person after being released from prison, Cheng Bing is essentially the husband of his wife and the father of his daughter. However, in the boundless moral wilderness of time, he is willing to hold high the torch of responsibility and defend his own head. The starry sky of justice and the inner moral law. Therefore, the members of the Three Brigades like Cheng Bing, with their paranoia and passion, sincerity and responsibility, defense and determination, painted a picture of human morality that retains the glimmer of mortal light. What is worthy of further questioning is, what is the reason for Cheng Bing’s belief that he spent all his money, pursuing no desire and pursuing the murderer for twelve years and ten thousand miles, just to bring the murderer to justice? I personally think that the implementation of moral responsibility has become an indelible bright color of the character's identity. What is moral responsibility? According to Aristotle, virtuous behavior is a quality that determines the choice of emotions and actions. It is determined by reason and makes demands like a wise person, that is, As long as people can practice according to their own wishes, and the actor as the subject of action can know his own behavior and the consequences thereof, the subject actor can receive corresponding moral praise or criticism. In short, the human subject must maintain good moral character, so that it can be better responsible for its own actions, that is, moral responsibility. In this way, it is not difficult to see that Cheng Bing's perseverance has become an inner belief, and a more rational and understanding blood flows in his body. The words "good police" from the victim's family also express the true feelings in Cheng Bing's heart. The answer is, therefore, moral responsibility is not only the bounden duty of Cheng Bing's professional attributes, but also his belief as an individual in a social group. In this sense, the Three Brigades are a metaphorical symbol full of moral responsibility propositions, which not only points to the upholding of individual responsibilities, but also extends to the upholding of responsibilities at the social level.
There is no doubt that justice is the summary of all virtues and the only way for the normal operation of society. As Ulpian, the famous ancient Roman jurist, said, justice is the firm and long-lasting desire to give everyone what they deserve. This also confirms the reason why Cheng Bing and the Three Brigades pursued the murderer for thousands of miles. It is true that justice is not just an individual's behavior or a group's slogan. It should appeal to real moral conscience and responsibility practice. Only in this way can we achieve a good life for the individual self and the group society in a true sense. (Author: Han Guidong)
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