ABSTRACT
There is a complex relation and important difference between ignorance and injustice. Contrarily, there is an important difference between knowing the truth and beingjust. That we cannot know everything does not mean we give up on justice. Neither does it mean there is something unknowable about the core of beingjust. To assert otherwise is to confuse questions of epistemology with those of justice. When contemporary theorists, reacting against the perceived failure of the universalisms of modernjustice, display the temptation to see the moment of decision - originary, or right now - as the key to an analysis of justice, they arguably fall into this error. Whether through the form of a particularity void or an aporia, the question of doing justice to the particular (or to the other, or to difference) has emerged as the key focus of much postmodern critical theory. Yet concentrating on this as a matter of knowledge fails to make enough ofthe distinction between epistemology and justice.
