Thank you for that informative article. I have made my own attempt at an ethic that can be derived from material reality: “Real Justice (summarized for a ‘5 min read’)” here in Medium.

I take morality to be a matter of belief, so this ethic divorces justice from morality. The ethic of real justice is mutual respect in effecting choices.

Limiting justice to the process of effecting choices locates the referents as well as the determiners of this ethic within material existence. That legitimately delegitimates going outside materiality (to beliefs, etc.) to justify violating this ethic — or to reject or ignore it. Outside that large but finite domain personal morality is the only source of self-governance.

I do acknowledge (from Foucault) that human beings are entitled to their own, unique experiences of material ‘reality’. Within the domain of real justice everyone who acknowledges the validity of the experience of material reality from which this ethic follows must be governed by it; people who experience alternative versions of material reality must be treated by society with the respect due fellow humans, but this ethic must govern their conduct within society, too.

If you did read any of it, any comments critique you might offer would be appreciated.