Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Fuller on Aspirations and Duties by Roderick T. Long
The last time I taught Philosophy of Law I gave my students notes on Fuller. Here are the notes on chapter 1: Lon Fuller’s Law and Morality, ch. 1 Lon Fuller (1902-1978) was a law professor at Harvard, and a strong opponent of legal positivism. But hi…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Fuller on Aspirations and Duties by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to butimbeautiful. The point of the distinction has to do with law. Law clearly bears some relation to morality. It’s not a literally amoral set of rules. Legal scholars in the English-speaking tradition (like Fuller) have wanted to keep…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Fuller on Aspirations and Duties by butimbeautiful
As a layperson, I can’t see the point of the distinction. You ought not to murder, you ought to put in a good day’s work. These commandments are both contingent on circumstance. That’s it, no? LikeLike
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(QC RSS) The Power Of Positive Thinking
Everything is fine
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(Policy of Truth) Fuller on Aspirations and Duties
Having finished with Gerald Gaus’s The Tyranny of the Ideal, our MTSP Philosophy Discussion Group is now back to reading philosophy of law, working our way through Lon Fuller’s The Morality of Law (1964/1969). Fuller’s book is Roderick Long’s choice, part of a sequence of books on philosophy of law we’re reading at his suggestion,…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those assemblies had, we noted, was the election…
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(QC RSS) Easier To Ask Forgiveness
Ayoooo
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(Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) They Talk the Talk, But Do Russia’s Hawks Have Any Real Influence?
https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/88334
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(Black Wall Street Times) Why the Montgomery Riverboat brawl is a crucial moment in history
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(Black Wall Street Times) ‘We were JUST there!’ Montgomery, Alabama brawl goes viral
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