Opening law to all truths made justice lose control over its own truth
Evidence
Although penal justice preserves the forms that guarantee its equity, it may now be opened up to all manner of truths, providing they are evident, well founded, acceptable to all. The legal ritual in itself no longer generates a divided truth. It is resituated in the field of reference of common proofs. With the multiplicity of scientific discourses, a difficult, infinite relation was then forged that penal justice is still unable to control. The master of justice is no longer the master of its truth. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 158
Categorization
- XREF: Reads as a genealogy of today’s adversarial expert-witness battles; the ‘master of justice is no longer the master of its truth’ echoes in current disputes over forensic science and statistical evidence. — connects to: Fabricating delinquency gave criminal justice authority through a scientific horizon of truth — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 391; Torture and semi-proofs scandalized justice only when the power to punish required certainty — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 158; Penal justice entrapped itself by entering relations of knowledge. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 381 (+3 more)
- DEEPTHINKING: ‘The master of justice is no longer the master of its truth’ — a dense, aphoristic payoff that traces modern legal epistemic dependence on science into a structural loss of authority.
Related
- Fabricating delinquency gave criminal justice authority through a scientific horizon of truth (similarity 0.84)
- Torture and semi-proofs scandalized justice only when the power to punish required certainty (similarity 0.84)
- Penal judgement now asks diagnostic questions beyond determining guilt (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Penal justice entrapped itself by entering relations of knowledge.
#corroborates(0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 381