Ciceronianus

There's a giant jackrabbit waiting for us all, I think.

Pierce came up with more than one version of the pragmatic maxim, and he wasn't all that pleased by James' version of pragmatism. He famously began to...

Not after her epic battle with the jackrabbit, which some call a kangaroo.

It would seem to me that the employment of reason under his definition would be the application of logic to the "relationship of human belief systems"...

Ah, another exercise in futility. Must be a philosopher, alright. We can hope one of the last of them.

Just what is it about his definition of reason that you are unable to comprehend? He did give one, you know. It was this:

Very true.

Those lines and wrinkles in your eyes must make it hard to see, though.

I'd have to do some reading to be certain of what you mean, but would agree that the concept of "transcendence"--of something apart from the universe,...

I wonder what you think a "rugged individualist" to be. If cowboys were, would others who earn a living by being part of a group moving commodities fr...

Ah, the distinctive smell of Hegel! How can one ignore it? I've probably come to late to this thread and may have nothing to add--I've only just smell...

Judging from those quotes, the stance is also old, and tired. Nothing new there.

He'd be banned for excessive use of exclamation points. Well, I'd ban him for that, anyway.

Yes. The vaqueros taught the whites how to do it.

It's a good thing Heidegger isn't a poster, then. Chortle. I'm incorrigible.

Cowboys were drovers, taking cattle from point A to point B. They traveled in groups. They probably weren't paid well, and their lives were likely dre...

In the 1950s we became fascinated with the Victorian-era migrant workers called cowboys, and turned them into heroes of the large and small screens. I...

Calling "the left" or Liberalism loony or something along those lines is an old tactic of those of "the right" (I won't say "Conservatives" as I think...

The Man with No Name certainly must be taken into account. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is of course a classic, but of Eastwood's Western films I pa...

You're wrong. About me, in any case. About age, in any case. If we are to use actors who played cowboys, or cowboy characters, as examples of masculin...

I will not be led into temptation to comment on "the attempt to understand the metaphysical, epistemological, semantic, and psychological, presupposit...

It's possible I'm too inflexible when it comes to the use of the word "law." I may be too concerned that unhelpful confusion will result from what I t...

And to you. I suspect we'll dispute over some topic again. That's what lawyers do, after all; perhaps even former lawyers.

Well, it took us a while, but we got there eventually.

What would ideally be a law, or what we hope the law and legal systems would be, are different from what is the law and what the legal system is, here...

That's a position which--I think--is similar to the position taken by the client who goes to court insisting that justice be done, even when told that...

The existence of law is one thing; its merit and demerit another. Whether it be or be not is one enquiry; whether it be or be not conformable to an as...

Really? Sometimes I marvel at my ability to misunderstand people. I've always wanted to practice before a Tribal Court. I don't know why. Probably bec...

I've been a lawyer my entire adult life--or, at least, what passes for a lawyer in the uncouth, rude, semi-savage region in which I practice. It may s...

Okay.

You're right of course. I should have known that it's impossible to comment intelligently on legal positivism without being familiar with the case of ...

Sorry all, but I must depart this thread to actually practice law, which means dealing with laws that exist, not laws that I think exist, or should ex...

So, a moral principle becomes a law in that case?

So, Natural law is a set of moral principles. The law is not. Right?

So, the law provided that someone who murdered X was entitled to his X's estate? I don't know the case referred to. I don't think a legal positivist w...

I wonder why you insist on calling such feelings "Natural Law."

I object to what many laws say. Alas, the fact I object to them has nothing to do with whether or not they exist. I think it's a misuse of language to...

I would assume such people think that, when the world we live in fails to meet their expectation, it isn't their world. But the world isn't their worl...

For me, natural law is not law. "Moral principles" are not law. They're principles. Positive law, as you defined it, is the law I refer to in this thr...

How do you know matters were settled by the persuasion of reason prior to the time the first law was written? Never mind. That's enough, I think. Acta...

Which was when? Where?

So Natural Law is not the law. It seems we agree after all.

I've defined the law as I think it to be. So have the dictionaries I referred to above. By those definitions, the laws of one state or society may dif...

Ah. I'm curious. When did the law operate by "persuasion of reason"?

Well clearly, to call something a law when it doesn't address law at all couldn't be a misuse of the word "law"! Who would think that something called...

That "we" doesn't include me. I'm addressing the law, which includes zoning laws and other laws. I don't think we can select particular laws and use t...

The statute you refer to depicts the Roman goddess Justicia and represents Justice, one of the four Roman virtues, not the law. If it's a symbol of la...

Just for clarification, Ollie accepted legal positivism's value-free approach to law. "This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice." --O...

Remarkable. I don't think I've ever encountered someone who thinks so differently than I do, and whose understanding of words is so unlike mine. Why t...

You astonish me, I must admit. I'll try to state clearly what I think should already be clear. I have no idea what you think to be Natural Law, or why...