Ethical foundations of the left

[Justin Schwartz]

Law's Empire is defective in many ways, and it's not a patch on Hart's great 
The Concept of Law, but it's worth reading. The account of statutory 
interpretation set forth in it is quite interesting, and obviously a major 
contender among those available. It may be less interesting to those whose 
jobs don't _include_ statutory interpretation, of course; mine does. --jks


>From: Kenneth MacKendrick <kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re: Ethical foundations of the left
>Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:20:19 -0700
>
>At 05:49 PM 7/23/01 -0700, you wrote:
>>As much as I hate to go over my posting limit for the day, here's an
>>interesting piece by Ronald Dworkin some of you might enjoy:
>>http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/dworkin/papers/objectivity.html
>>
>>-- Luke
>
>Thanks for the notice, this reconfirms my determination not to read Law's
>Empire. Dworkin should know better. He fails to grasp the way in which
>questions of objectivity can be rethought not in a Kantian transcendental
>schema, but through pragmatics, which takes into consideration the
>propositional content of a expression, the normative claims that it raises,
>the intelligibility of the speaker (and capacity of the hearer) and the
>sincerity of the participants.
>
>ken
>

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