Existence in Nihilism: Self-Contradicting Awakening in the Trial

如果將法律視為維持正義的社會標準以保障良善去除惡意，我們當然同意審判即此標準的實踐。然而，當我們明白活在虛無的人生裡，法律與審判的目的便不再是維持正義的社會標準，而是教化我們感知並探索存在之意義。在卡夫卡的《審判》裡，被荒謬逮捕的事件迫使約瑟夫K看清了有缺失的自己，還有其無力接受也無力改變的官僚社會之真貌。約瑟夫K盡全力宣揚他的無辜，想將自己從這場荒謬的指控中拯救出來，可是，除了他對自身的覺醒與官僚社會的了悟之外，其他一切作為都是徒勞的。從一個自豪優越的銀行高級金融職員變成一個受盡屈辱的被告者，審判約瑟夫K的不是人定的法律而是宇宙裡未知的天律，引領他了解自我且面對虛無。在《審判》裡，約瑟夫K無法逃離的行刑，伴隨著自相矛盾的覺醒，其實是專賜與他，即形而上所呈現的無罪開釋。

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If we consider that the law is the social standard of justice that protects good and eliminates evil, then we shall agree that a trial is the experiment of this standard. But the purposes of the law and the trial are no longer useful for maintaining the social standard of justice but for inculcating us to perceive and explore the meaning of existence when we live in nihilism. In Kafka's The Trial, Josef K. is forced to by his absurd arrest to see the truth of his own flawed self and the truth of a bureaucratic society that he is impotent to neither accept nor change. Josef K. strives to claim his innocence and rescues himself from this senseless charge but everything he does is futile except his awakening of the self and his understanding of the bureaucratic society. From a proud and privileged chief financial officer in a bank to a humiliated defendant, Josef K. is under the arrest not by the human law but by the unknown divine law of the cosmos that leads him to understand the self and confront nihilism. His inescapable execution accompanied with his self-contradicting awakening is actually a metaphysical acquittal that is only granted to Josef K. in The Trial.