Plato's Republic

Justin Schwartz jkschw at hotmail.com
Thu Jun 20 08:48:29 PDT 2002



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> Coercion is the very essence of law....that is the entire point of
>Dworkin's work: how does a liberla society one justify coersion?

The point about liberalism is that you don't use coercion to enforce contested views about fundamentals: that's why head scarves are protected. The law can say: do coercion here! (This behavior is protected) as well as Don't Do That! You're lawyers, Eric, Dave, this should be second nature to you.

jks

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