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Deconstructive Practice and Legal Theory-- Part I The purpose of this Article is to introduce legal readers to the ideas of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, and to his philosophical practices regarding the interpretation of texts, sometimes known as deconstruction. This can be of value not only to the lawyer who seeks to reform existing institutions, but also to the legal philosopher and the legal historian. Legal doctrines are based upon a group of foundational concepts and principles. www.yale.edu /lawweb/jbalkin/articles/decprac1.htm

The Dooyeweerd Centre at Redeemer University College For the first five or six years of his professorship, he shifted the focus of his research and publications from the broader issues of Calvinist political and social theory to intricate questions of legal doctrine and legal philosophy. In the 1930s Dooyeweerd began to elaborate systematically and in detail these latter three philosophical theories and to show their importance for defining and resolving issues of law, political science, sociology, and many other sciences. Though the novelty of his ideas, and the acuity of his critiques of others, often made Dooyeweerd's work an object of controversy, he garnered respect and praise from adherents and antagonists alike." He was a premier Christian polymath who commands the attention of scholars in every discipline who seek to integrate faith and learning. www.redeemer.on.ca /Dooyeweerd-Centre/biography.html

Photo Album Daniel Friedrich, Sheena Smith, Tom Campbell, Elizabeth Coleman, Leighton McDonald, and John Gardner at the dinner after the Workshop on the Legal Philosophy of John Gardner, 2003. Laurie Paul, Michael Smith, and Caroline West at the dinner after the Workshop on the Legal Philosophy of John Gardner, 2003 Jonathan Dancy, Michael Smith, Katharina Kaiser, Jay Wallace, and Monica Smith in town during the Reasons and Rationality Conference, 2004. philrsss.anu.edu.au /photoalbum.php3   (888 words)

'Hardball with Chris Matthews' for June 20 - Hardball with Chris Matthews - MSNBC.com SMITH:  Yes, and not just how to sell it to the British and American people, but also, of course, how to make it legal, because, for the British, it was very important that it became legal. SMITH:  Yes, it is, because—well, it's not a rush in the sense that they are taking their time to get there, but they're taking more time than the American government wants to take.  SMITH:  The Downing Street memo shows that the British government—that the key players within the British War Cabinet—and you have to think of those people that were attending that meeting as the equivalent of the National Security Council.  www.msnbc.msn.com /id/8301757   (4931 words)

Open Directory - Society:Philosophy:Philosophers:A:Austin, John British legal philosopher and theorist, widely regarded as the founder of "legal positivism." His theory was strongly influenced by Utilitarianism. The legal theorist John Austin should not be confused with 20th-century philosopher of language J.L. Austin. Top : Society : Philosophy : Philosophers : A : Austin,_John dmoz.org /Society/Philosophy/Philosophers/A/Austin,_John/desc.html   (4931 words)

Legalism and Chinese Philosophy Hsün Tzu, much like the Italian political philosopher Machiavelli, draws a clear distinction between what pertains to heaven and what pertains to man. Later Legalist thinking influenced Chinese political theorists like Tung Chung-shu, who believed in a rigid mathematical proportion in social arrangements. The dominant imagery in Legalism's writings is of forcefully straightening or unbending twisted tree limbs so that they grow perfectly straight, or using hot irons to burn the tree limbs so that they will grow in the desired direction. Even though both Confucianism and Legalism called for governmental hierarchy and adherence to tradition, the difference between the two schools is that Confucianism advocated ruling benevolently by example. web.cn.edu /kwheeler/chinese_legalism.html   (4931 words)

The Leiter Reports: Editorials, News, Updates: In Memoriam: Joel Feinberg That, on top of his major philosophical contributions, he was also a caring mentor of dozens of graduate students and young philosophers means that he will long be remembered with both intellectual admiration and genuine affection and gratitude. He is, on anyone's accounting, one of the handful of major figures in legal philosophy of recent decades; and, indeed, much as Hart defined the central questions and issues for analytic jurisprudence over the past forty years, so Feinberg set much of the important agenda in normative jurisprudence. Permit me a personal note, on the sad occasion of the passing of this splendid philosopher and human being. webapp.utexas.edu /blogs/archives/bleiter/001021.html   (492 words)

Philosopher Most philosophers make their livings as college professors (see Professor), but there aren't many full-time teaching positions in philosophy, and philosophers do not have outside employment opportunities the way engineers or economists do. The young philosopher's choice of a dissertation topic, therefore, has a significant impact upon the institutions where jobs will be available at graduation. The French government has occasionally employed its own philosophers, once hiring noted philosopher Michel Foucault to serve on a committee to rewrite the French penal code, but the U.S. government is not known for this practice. www.princetonreview.com /cte/profiles/dayInLife.asp?careerID=112   (509 words)

Aristotle's Political Theory The analogy is imprecise because politics, in the strict sense of legislative science, is a form of practical wisdom or prudence, but valid to the extent that the politician produces, operates, and maintains a legal system according to universal principles ( EN VI.8 and X.9). For although it is worthy to attain it for only an individual, it is nobler and more divine to do so for a nation or city-state." ( EN I.2.1094b7-10) Aristotle's political science encompasses the two fields which modern philosophers distinguish as ethics and political philosophy. Politics is a practical science, since it is concerned with the noble action or happiness of the citizens (although it resembles a productive science in that it seeks to create, preserve, and reform political systems.) Aristotle thus understands politics as a normative or prescriptive discipline rather than as a purely empirical or descriptive inquiry. plato.stanford.edu /entries/aristotle-politics   (509 words)

From Revolution to Reconstruction: Biographies: Edmund Burke Burke responded to these affairs in his pamphlet Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770), in which he argued that although George's actions were legal in the sense that they were not against the letter of the constitution, they were all the more against it in spirit. British statesman, parliamentary orator and political thinker, played a prominent part in all major political issues for about 30 years after 1765, and remained an important figure in the history of political theory. His political career started in 1765 when he became the private secretary of one of the Whig leaders in Parliament, the marquess of Rockingham. odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/B/eburke/burke.htm   (509 words)

Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France The propagators of this political gospel are in hopes that their abstract principle (their principle that a popular choice is necessary to the legal existence of the sovereign magistracy) would be overlooked, whilst the king of Great Britain was not affected by it. Finding their schemes of politics not adapted to the state of the world in which they live, they often come to think lightly of all public principle, and are ready, on their part, to abandon for a very trivial interest what they find of very trivial value. In this political traffic, the leaders will be obliged to bow to the ignorance of their followers, and the followers to become subservient to the worst designs of their leaders. www.constitution.org /eb/rev_fran.htm   (509 words)

POLITICAL THEORY AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: This will be a little meandering, inductive rather than deductive, and impressionis When political philosophers turn to the history of political thought, it is typically to extract an argument, not to study a particular person or group of persons or set of influences. This is not true of Rawls, and indeed isn’t true of many of the most prominent political philosophers. Not all theorists (or all philosophers!) have the same canon, of course. polisci.spc.uchicago.edu /~jtlevy/theory-philosophy.html   (509 words)

Search Tuna Report for Thomas More Thomas More Law Center Governor Bush Has Legal Authority, But Lacks Political Will To... Thomas More's Life About Thomas More Although this law program was among the best and most demanding in London, More found time to continue his study of Greek, philosophy, literature, and theology with such world-renowned teachers as Linacre, Grocyn, and Colet, as well as with the pious and learned Carthusians.... Thomas More's Political Martyrdom More finally fell prey to the Act of Treason, which allowed his reluctance to swear to be interpreted as an act of malice against the king.... searchtuna.com /ftlive/643.html   (509 words)

Philosopher's Stone - Vindicating Political Rationality Against the Neo-Con Leviathan C: Judith Miller should not be forced to reveal her source, nor should she go to jail, nor should she be the focus of a legal probe into a felony offense. Judith Miller is the paradigmatic example of a courtesan press which has traded a constitutional mandate to function with integrity for a chance to be in the inner-sanctum of corporate media who transcribe official doctrine as it is delivered from the White House. Miller published Chalabi’s disinformation as if it were fact, a project for which she was even sent on assignment to Iraq to work on, where she alienated everyone she would work with, with her arrogance and aggressiveness and allegiance to the project of making the Bush view of Iraq into a reality. www.philosophers-stone.blogspot.com /2004_12_01_philosophers-stone_archive.html   (509 words)

Francis Bacon [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] Sir Francis Bacon (later Lord Verulam and the Viscount St. Albans) was an English lawyer, statesman, essayist, historian, intellectual reformer, philosopher, and champion of modern science. Bacon completed his law degree in 1582, and in 1588 he was named lecturer in legal studies at Gray’s Inn. Sir Francis Bacon (later Lord Verulam, the Viscount St. Albans, and Lord Chancellor of England) was born in London in 1561 to a prominent and well-connected family. www.iep.utm.edu /b/bacon.htm   (6065 words)

Social Philosophers and Commentators English empiricist philosopher and originator of the modern "positivist" view of science, as opposed to the Aristotlean approach to knowledge of the Scholastics. English philosopher, his 1656 tract advocated the setting up of a state run by the landed aristocracy, albeit with a written constitution and restrictions on amount of land-holdings to balance the power. English legal scholar, judge, historian, chief baron of the Exchequer and burner of witches. cepa.newschool.edu /het/schools/optimist.htm   (369 words)

The Ethics of War Thomas W. Pogge, "Cosmopolitanism and Sovereignty," Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy 103 (October 1992): 48-75. In "Left Behind" (Op-Ed, Aug. 17), Thomas Lynch eloquently decries the president's lack of remorse. Thomas E. Hill, Jr., "A Kantian Perspective on Political Violence," The Journal of Ethics: An International Philosophical Review 1 (1997): 105-40. theethicsofwar.blogspot.com   (369 words)

Oxford University Press Series in Practial and Professional Ethics Contributors include legal and political philosophers Philip Pettit, George Fletcher and Jeremy Waldron. A classic work in the field of practical and professional ethics, this collection of nine essays by English philosopher and educator Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) was first published in 1898 and forms a vital complement to Sidgwick’s major treatise on moral theology, The Methods of Ethics. Michael Davis, a leading figure in the study of professional ethics, offers here both a compelling exploration of engineering ethics and a philosophical analysis of engineering as a profession. www.indiana.edu /~appe/oxford.html   (369 words)

Philosophical Dictionary: Habermas-Hayek English legal philosopher who applied the methods of analytic philosophy to the foundations of jurisprudence in American feminist philosopher of science who proposes a fundamental re-examination of the concepts of human nature and political identity in light of postmodern rejection of stark dualisms. English philosopher whose careful study of the philosophy of Spinoza in www.philosophypages.com /dy/h.htm   (369 words)

main legacy template In addition, be aware that these papers are the property of the author and violation of these property rights may have legal consequences. Questions regarding the nature of truth have always been central to not only philosophers, but all men (and women, of course) who possess any desire for knowledge. This paper is published electronically by the UHP Legacy Project with the permission of the author. www.unm.edu /~legacy/ancient/ancientworks/truth.html   (770 words)

HERS Output An examination of philosophical theories of the good life and human flourishing, and their implications for legal and political philosophy. The aim of this course is to introduce some central philosophical topics and to demonstrate, through careful discussion of them, the characteristics of contemporary philosophical work. An examination of some texts of philosophical aesthetics from the 18th and 19th centuries, texts which either represent or anticipate the Romantic period. www.registrar.fas.harvard.edu /Courses1999-2000/Philosophy.html   (770 words)

Neo-Kantian philosopher - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Neo-Kantian philosopher This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. Philosophical movement started about 1865 in Germany by Otto Liebmann (1840–1912), which lasted until the 1920s. Neo-Kantianism abandoned the wild speculations of the followers of G W F Hegel and advocated a return to the theories of Immanuel Kant. encyclopedia.farlex.com /Neo-Kantian+philosopher   (770 words)

Thumbnail biographic sketches After philosophic and legal studies in Switzerland, Althusius was a professor at the University of Herborn in Nassau until 1604, when he became syndic of the town of Emden in the Dutch province of Friesland. Greek skeptical philosopher; founder of the so-called Second Academy; opponent of Stoicism and exponent of the Socratic method; held that both senses and reason are untrustworthy). Scottish philosophical writer, professor of logic and metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh from 1891. www.mencken.org /files/text/me1908biographies.htm   (770 words)

PressThink: Comment on Time for Robert Novak to Feel Some Chill I've stated the legal reasons in a previous post why Miller could be jailed with or without a shield law. Miller was so leftist and anti-war (she works for the NYTimes, right?) that she authored a series of Chalabi-sourced articles that virtually supported Bush's WMD argument single-handed. The fact is that Judith Miller, and perhaps Novak and Cooper, was in effect a witness, or probably a witness to a crime. journalism.nyu.edu /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=1652   (770 words)

Keyword Judith Miller of the New York Times will mark two weeks of time served for refusing to divulge her source in a legal showdown which has mushroomed into a bona fide scandal, centering on White House political guru Karl Rove. Miller's incarceration is defended by some in the news business who say nobody, even a star or celebrity journalist, has a right to defy a direct order by a court. NEW YORK As Judith Miller of The New York Times approaches the end of her second week in a Virginia jail, reports from behind bars reveal she is enduring stomach problems from jail food. www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=judithmiller   (770 words)

Thus Blogged Anderson. We also know that David Wurmser and John Hannah, who have both apparently cooperated after threats of legal action (i.e., time behind bars) with Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald worked both for John Bolton's operation and the Vice President's office. John D. Podesta, who was chief of staff to Clinton, said Bush may be more constrained by his troubles than Clinton was by his. The current official Catholic teaching, as enunciated by John Paul II, is that Darwin's theory is one of the supreme accomplishments of the human mind and in no way contrary to Scripture. andersonblog.blogspot.com   (9635 words)

critical legal studies - Links to Legal Resources: Jurisprudence: critical legal studies Deconstructive Practice and Legal Theory - Article by J.M. Balkin, explaining deconstruction, how it works and how the ideas of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida are relevant to the law and to legal theory. Legal Information : Jurisprudence: critical legal studies LII: Law about...Critical Legal Studies - An overview of critical legal studies. mishpat.net /law/Jurisprudence/critical_legal_studies/index.shtml   (94 words)

Remarks of Rep. Scott on the Commemoration of Brown Vs. Board of Education A philosopher once noted that "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." So, I am delighted that the NAACP Legal Defense Fund is instituting this initiative to remind people of what Brown was all about and that the fight for equal educational opportunity did not end with Brown. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund was there with the filing of Brown, and it remains vigilant, and on the case today, with this commemoration of the spirit of Brown to once again fight to have all children properly educated. So, I am delighted that the NAACP Legal Defense Fund is instituting this initiative to remind people that the fight for equal opportunity did not end with Brown. www.house.gov /scott/press/remarks_Brown_vs_Board_of_Education.htm   (94 words)

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