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Showing posts with label Philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philosophy. Show all posts
Sunday, January 7, 2024

Hermeneutics and Anselm's Ontological Argument: Lessons for Lawyers and Others On Existential Proof

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When lawyers and others explore the limits of logical proof in proving matters of existence, it's quite useful to explore St. Anselm...
Sunday, January 19, 2020

How To Do Things With Signs: An Overview of Semiotics for Lawyers and Others

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Click HERE for a link to my current draft of "How To Do Things With Signs: Semiotics in Legal Theory, Practice, and Education." ...
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Wednesday, May 29, 2019

La Bruyère on Human Inconstancy

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It's a shame so many Anglophones don't read or even know of La Bruy ère.  Here's some food for thought from his clever pen (as t...
Monday, June 5, 2017

Embracing Life: Shakespeare and "Existentialism"

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              Sartre claims that existence precedes “essence,” that “being-in-itself” is thrust upon us, that we have our subse...
Saturday, April 29, 2017

"Nature Hath Framed Strange Fellows" William Shakespeare and Natural Law

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A. Introduction                            Natural law theorists might turn to The History of Troilus and Cressida to start ...
Thursday, April 27, 2017

Shakespeare and Legal Positivism

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            Despite his limited formal education, Shakespeare’s works display a great deal of legal knowledge. [1]   As a part of Shak...
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Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Cognitive Emotion and the Law

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Many wrongly believe that emotion plays little or no role in legal reasoning. Unfortunately, Langdell and his “scientific” case method ...
Saturday, July 16, 2016

Ballade of Charles Sanders Peirce: That Common Measure of the Number Three (An Addition to "The Apology Box")

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      Ballade of Charles Sanders Peirce A "candle" burns a finger, lights a room-- The only sense that "candle"...
Monday, July 11, 2016

Wittgenstein's Sonnet: No Pictures See Themselves (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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     Wittgenstein’s Sonnet When I was young, words worked a different way. We hung them round like pictures on a wall To replica...
Saturday, July 9, 2016

Double Sonnet of William James: Grace That Brings Good Order in the Head (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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            Double Sonnet of William James                                    I .    Descartes, pure mind and body can't ...
Sunday, June 19, 2016

Daniel: Nighttime Hieroglyphics in the Head (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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        Daniel’s Sonnet    (A Jew “exiled” in Babylon) Through deepest faith, I tapped night's lexicon That Nimrod changed. ...

Augustine: Faith Must Come First (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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          Augustine’s Lines and Acrostic                      (A bishop of Hippo) Si fallor, sum! I no doubt must exist However fr...
Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Old Testament Words & Rhetoric: Ehud, Elisha, & Jonah (Additions to "The Apology Box")

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           Ehud’s Solid Rhetoric      (Left-handed judge who killed Fat King Eglon) Somehow it seems we have reversed our roles. ...

Abelard: The Peril & the Price of Careless Thought (Addition to the Apology Box)

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                         Abelard’s Ballade Thought is the cruelest place where charts mark no Fixed latitude or constancy of shore...
Sunday, June 12, 2016

Sonnets of Seven Greek Philosophers: Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Zeno of Citium, Diogenes of Sinope, Heraclitus, & Protagoras (Additions to "The Apology Box")

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                   Plato’s Sonnet             (A liberated caveman) When I was tethered up inside the cave Where I could see ...
Saturday, June 11, 2016

Confucius and Lao Tzu (Additions to "The Apology Box")

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            Confucius’s Sonnet Mere force brings no true order since forced change Warps from without and thus can never fit A...
Friday, June 10, 2016

Rhetoric to Lettie (A Book of Original Verse)

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                                        Lettie 6/12/2001 to 6/2/2013                                         © Harold Ant...
Thursday, June 9, 2016

The Complete Palladas from the Palatine Anthology

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 Translated By Harold Anthony Lloyd  © 2016 Translator’s Notes: I have compiled a complete verse collection of Palladas in ...

Snow In August (A Book of Original Verse)

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         Snow In August She had enjoyed sweet certain knowledge that, however hot the summer, August brought its welcome sn...
Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Either Oar (A Book of Original Verse & Translations)

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