Archive for September 5th, 2007

Links & Thanks

The Major­domo would like to express grat­i­tude to The Objec­tive Stan­dard, Ratio­nal Jenn, and Objec­tivis­mOn­line, who have gen­er­ously added this site to their blogrolls, and espe­cially to Mr. Van Horn who, in addi­tion, fea­tured this site in a recent Quick Roundup. ~Major­domo of Links

More on Positivism

It occurs to me that the last post was really long. Sorry. Here’s some more on the con­se­quences of Pos­i­tivism. Con­sti­tu­tion. From con­stituere, to fix or estab­lish. The U.S. Con­sti­tu­tion was writ­ten as an estab­lish­ing doc­u­ment. It “fixed” the pow­ers of gov­ern­ment. If you read the main body, it presents a list of what the gov­ern­ment, be it the Exec­u­tive, Con­gress, or the Judi­ciary, may do. In those places where it pro­hibits the gov­ern­ment from doing some­thing, it is always a nar­row­ing of an ear­lier grant of author­ity. Fun­da­men­tally, the orig­i­nal Con­sti­tu­tion, with­out the Bill of Rights, is an empow­er­ing doc­u­ment. It [ . . . ]

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On Philosophy in Legal Education

As you already know, hav­ing thor­oughly read and under­stood the About and Poli­cies pages, I am a law stu­dent. I attend a pub­lic law school in a key Mid­west­ern swing state. This infor­ma­tion is spe­cific enough to nar­row the field to a hand­ful of schools, but not so spe­cific that my pro­fes­sors or fel­low stu­dents might dis­cover my iden­tity. Such a dis­cov­ery would likely result in an unpleas­ant sit­u­a­tion, as I fully intend to engage in crit­i­cal com­men­tary on var­i­ous aspects of my legal edu­ca­tion. To wit ~ Law school began for me last year with a one-​​​​week, “inten­sive,” intro­duc­tory course titled “Intro­duc­tion to Law and Legal Sys­tems.” Oh, thought [ . . . ]

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In the Company of Giants

I am delighted to have received sev­eral com­ments from per­sons of great note and whom I respect. To the intel­lec­tual giants who have offered their encour­age­ments, many thanks. I hope you may find value in my efforts.