Love is a God, who cooperates in securing the safety of the city.
Zeno of Citium, As quoted in Deipnosophists by Athenaeus, xiii. 561c.
#Zeno of #Citium#stoics#God#Love#city#legal#law#lawyer https://t.co/YcliRqRDfc
"Five Minutes of Legal Philosophy" (1945) Gustav Radbruch
This view of a law and of its validity (we call it the positivistic theory)
has rendered jurists and the people alike defenceless against
arbitrary, cruel, or criminal laws,
however extreme the… https://t.co/kYHlwBGBhr
Critical analysis
and constructive interpretation
This paper concerns two problems of legal practice — interpretation and
the justification of judicial decisions. Largely because of Dworkin's work,
legal theory now addresses without skeptical presumption… https://t.co/t3SO8SyDgM
For he who would proceed aright in this matter should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms; and first, if he be guided by his instructor aright, to love one such form only—out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he will of himself perceiv… https://t.co/DTnDDIk4my
A person like this will win the love neither of god nor of
his fellow-men; he is incapable of social life, and without
social life there can be no friendship. Wise men say, Callicles,
that heaven and earth, gods and men, are held together by
the bonds o… https://t.co/xgQReox2mV
It is always useful and important to be able to qualify as just
the social conceptions which one advocates.
Every revolution, every war, every overthrow
has always been effected in the name of Justice.
And the extraordinary thing is that it should be … https://t.co/gYfvOnAu3q
What will have to be conceded more radically than ever before is that love itself cancels out all the characteristics
which could have served as a basis and a motive for it. Every attempt to 'see through' the other person ends up in empty space, in the u… https://t.co/4HKscpjfyk
This material is regarded as fixed and known,
just as the form is assumed to be governed
by well-ascertained rules.
A treatise in philosophy is usually not expected
to be constructed on such a pattern, perhaps because
people suppose that a philosophi… https://t.co/nlfOaG8Nvz
In the form of individual rights, the energies of free choice, strategic action, and selfrealization are simultaneously released and channeled by compelling norms, about which citizens must reach an understanding by following democratic procedures and pu… https://t.co/wqSc1t4eAq
One of the greatest merits of the critical legal studies movement was to have created an intellectual space
in which law and legal thought could be better used
to resist the dictatorship of no alternatives.
Its limited but important contribution to su… https://t.co/Dwer0aVbr3
There is a connection, as these discussions indicate, between constitutional interpretation and religion, but the connection is not merely an analogical or metaphorical one. Rather, many versions of modern constitutional interpretation can best be unders… https://t.co/eRvUv5i9IT
First, there is a sort of public good of inclusiveness that our society sponsors and that it is committed to. We are diverse in our ethnicity, our race, our appearance, and our religions. And we are embarked on a grand experiment of living and working to… https://t.co/K0ODkobg8D