Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus is a Latin phrase, meaning "Let justice be done, though the world perish".[1]
An inscription Fiat iustitia pereat mundus on the sculpture The Scales of Justice in Kolín. The sculpture was made by Ivan Erben in 2001.
This sentence was the motto of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (1556–1564),[2] who used it as his slogan, and it became an important rule to control the nation.[3] It probably originating from Johannes Jacobus Manlius's book Loci Communes (1563).[4] It is a maxim meaning that a just decision should be made at whatever cost in terms of practical consequences. An alternative phrase is Fiat justitia ruat caelum, meaning "Let justice be done, though the heavens may fall."[1]
Ludwig von Mises wrote in Human Action, "The utilitarian economist does not say: Fiat justitia, pereat mundus. He says: Fiat justitia, ne pereat mundus."[8] (=Let Justice be done, so that the world won't perish, or, Let justice be done, and the world not perish).
^'Loci Communes Manlii : das ist: Herrliche Schöne Historien Allerley Selten unnd neuwen Exempel, Gleichniß ...' – Digitalisat | MDZ
^"Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch: Appendix 1". Retrieved 19 September 2014.
^Kant, Immanuel (1796). Project for a Perpetual Peace. p. 61. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
^Kant, Immanuel (1838). Immanuel Kant's Werke, revidirte Gesammtausg. p. 456. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
^Ludwig von Mises (1940). Human Action(PDF). p. 147.
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