Thanking @Hofstra_L_Rev - Conceptions of Law, Ideology, and the Rule of Law - why the rule of law project can be conducive in its moral evaluative commitments to an oppositional ideology in service of democratic agency and an ameliorative social function.

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Per his pedagogy, Gilbert Ryle asked students in his 1967–68 Oxford audience what was wrong with saying that there are three things in a field: two cows and a pair of cows.

Régis Debray successfully campaigned to transfer Josephine Baker's (1906-1975) remains to the Panthéon, "to bring turbulence and sunshine into this cold crypt."

The Vietnamese philosopher Trần Đức Thảo (1917–1993) compellingly wrote that, "truth, being defined in terms of self-evidence, cannot by that very fact be posited in absolute terms, for self-evidence exists as such only in its actual lived experience, which is always renewed."

Robert Summers' key 1966 piece The New Analytical Jurists included in this category HLA Hart, Ronald Dworkin, Marshall Cohen to a significant extent, and himself. Lon Fuller identified those four as writing nearly interchangeably in their critiques of his inner morality thesis.

I do not share the opinion that one should not doubt once one has convinced oneself of something. In pure philosophy this is impossible. Our mind has a natural aversion against it.
-- Immanuel Kant

The activity of knowing is no less a world-building activity than the building of houses, while the need to think leaves nothing so tangible behind, cannot be stilled by the insights of "wise men," and can only be satisfied through thinking itself.
-- Hannah Arendt

Ballrooms, arches, reflecting pools, gold embossments, "total obliterations"

View from last evening's NYU Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy, Moshe Halbertal's paper challenging, inter alia, the idea that Fuller's criteria of legality indeed reflect law's inner morality rather than solely an instrumentalism facilitating social control.

Analytic philosopher Gilbert Ryle ( 1929) on Heidegger's “Sein und Zeit"

There is, in general, little intellectual nourishment to be found in rebuttals to rejoinders to replies.
-- Ernest Nagel (1959)

RT @profbensaul: The US response to my UN report fails to refute any of my legal findings that the US has murdered 244 civilians at sea. In…

At Oxford in the 1930s, Gilbert Ryle hosted a philosophy discussion group that included A.J. Ayer, Isaiah Berlin, J.L Austin, and Theodor Adorno, Ryle pressing the group to stick to analytic linguistic issues.

It is no accident that the Third Reich suspended Social Insurance for those in the working class arbitrarily considered enemies of the state as the first statutory enaction of the unrestrained Prerogative State.
-- Ernst Fraenkel (1941)

HLA Hart critiqued Robert Nozick's "extreme libertarian position" as resting on "the slenderest foundation," one that protects certain rights but otherwise disregards "how a social system actually works, how individuals fare under it, what miseries or inequalities it produces."

For Kant people can, of course, act according to maxims, but those can be evil as well as good -- a person being evil not by doing evil things alone but once that behavior allows us to infer evil maxims -- although evil ones are inherently incapable of being universalized.

In his third definitive article for perpetual peace, Kant says that all individuals as human beings in the world community have the right to hospitality -- that if someone approaches our shores out of need, with peaceful purpose, we cannot deny access and universal hospitality.

Old school.

"There are no legal safeguards that can be written into the Constitution to prevent its violation. Even the American constitution—which, contrary to the intentions of its creators and held up as a model of checks and balances—proved vulnerable to this."

Reacting against Carnap's view that metaphysics is no more "meaningful" than poetry, as based on an underestimation of poetry, Arendt said, "It seems only natural that an emphasis on speech will discriminate against appearances, and the emphasis on sensation against thinking."

The British governor of Jamaica Edward Eyre (1865) having authorized the Morant Bay massacre of 500 men, women, & children, London's prosecutorial committee included JS Mill and Albert Venn Dicey, the defence committee Charles Dickens, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Matthew Arnold.