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Reply To Judge Richard A. Posner on The Inseparability of Law and Morality
This article is a formal Reply to Judge Richard A. Posner’s article published in the Harvard Law Review.2 Posner’s article was actually an amalgamation of lectures he gave as the speaker of the annual Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture series celebrating the 100th anniversary of Holmes’s famous essay, “The Path of Law.” In these lectures, Posner addresses his aversion to what he calls academic moralism,” moral philosophy, legal theory, moral theory and “moral entrepreneurs,” because moral theory lacks the “intellectual cogency or the emotional power to change people’s beliefs or behavior.”
I remember Allan Bloom, Part 2
The world is a dangerous place to live not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it. ~ Albert Einstein Einstein’s aphorism above in an utterly singular manner extrapolates why professor Allan Bloom had to write his magnum opus, “The Closing of the American Mind,” […]
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