id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-917 Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus - Wikipedia .html text/html 531 82 63 Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus Wikipedia Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus Jump to navigation An inscription Fiat iustitia pereat mundus on the sculpture The Scales of Justice in KolĂ­n. Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus is a Latin phrase, meaning "Let justice be done, though the world perish".[1] An alternative phrase is Fiat iustitia, ruat caelum with means "Let justice be done, though the heavens may fall."[5] A famous use is by Immanuel Kant, in his 1795 Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch (German: Zum ewigen Frieden. 190 192) reversed it in "Fiat iustitia, ne pereat mundus" (=Let Justice be done, so that the world won't perish), declaring it as the motto of the "utilitaristic economists". ^ https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195369380.001.0001/acref-9780195369380-e-775 ^ https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195369380.001.0001/acref-9780195369380-e-775 ^ http://law.snu.ac.kr/page_en/about.php ^ http://law.snu.ac.kr/page_en/about.php Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiat_iustitia,_et_pereat_mundus&oldid=996326870" Hidden categories: Articles containing Latin-language text Articles containing German-language text Edit links This page was last edited on 25 December 2020, at 22:45 (UTC). ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-917.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-917.txt