Ethics in Law and Life
April 2, 2018[…] What the nonlawyer refers to as “ethics” can be described as standards of right conduct: how one human being qua human being ought to act toward another. But the lawyer means something entirely different. […]
[…] What the nonlawyer refers to as “ethics” can be described as standards of right conduct: how one human being qua human being ought to act toward another. But the lawyer means something entirely different. […]
[…] argues that all five kinds of power are present in healthy individuals, and that “the goal for human development is to learn to use these different kinds of power in ways adequate to the […]
[…] came to grips with what pacifism requires of its adherents. I found the prospect of killing other human beings so offensive that I was prepared to go to Canada, if necessary, to avoid the […]
[…] kind, funny, sensitive, self-deprecating, and articulate about really important things. We couldn’t. He’s one of the finest human beings I know, and the dignity and courage of his letter of resignation are all of […]
[…] staged polemics on a more abstract and theoretical level. The psychological and often irrational emotional causes of human action struck me as both more intriguing and more enlightening. I also started Russian studies as […]
[…] that array of bright, beautiful faces, I was impressed by what they represented of the three great human quests—Truth, Beauty, and Goodness—whose fusion and harmony, as Wayne Booth argues, constitute God. Their faces, the […]
[…] a sou’wester, long raincoat and rubber boots. The exhibition’s wry title was “This is how we learn human anatomy.” It is ironical that such attitudes should persist. All Utah students in Paris art schools […]
[…] and ironies of a King Lear or a Moby Dick. But what about such awesome studies in human degeneration as Medea and Macbeth? What about that wry satirical questioning of all values, Vanity Fair, […]
[…] sense of God having purposes we must conceive of God having a mind very much like a human: “Add a mind like the human, said Philo. I know of no other, replied Cleanthes. And […]
[…] more leeway than a casual reading of history books discloses. His sense of relevance, his assumptions about human motivation and social causation, and the moral he wishes readers to draw from the story—what he […]