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Check Mike Check Sound Circulate Attendance. Time. Today’s Lecture:. The Triangle: Putting it all Together Getting to the bottom of jurisprudence Practicing for the paper Where we go from here. Class Announcements. Last Quiz. -- Toward the end of April, probably Monday, April 28 th.
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Today’s Lecture: • The Triangle: Putting it all Together • Getting to the bottom of jurisprudence • Practicing for the paper • Where we go from here
Class Announcements Last Quiz -- Toward the end of April, probably Monday, April 28th
Class Announcements Quality Point Totals -- Will tally them after the Midwest
Class Announcements Papers -- Paper(s) are due on May 1st, my very last lecture here
Class Announcements Exam Grades -- Should have been mailed to you
Time Class Announcements Reading next time -- Propositions 6 through 12 in the paper that was emailed to you (what do we mean when we say “the decision is ideological”) Questions?
“The Triangle” Understanding Jurisprudence • -- We’ve just completed the story of the history of the foundations of judging • (teaching philosophy through history) • -- In this story, we encountered three basic “Godfathers” of thought: Natural Law Positivism Skepticism
“The Triangle” Understanding Jurisprudence -- We also saw that each of these “Godfathers” had smaller crews or units that were working under them God? Logic? Reason? Tradition? Natural Law Originalism? Analytic? Positivism Inductive? Skepticism Pragmatism “Crits”
“The Triangle” Understanding Jurisprudence -- In looking these three “mafia families” (or meta approaches), you will note that they serve 3 basic concerns (“Gods”) … God? Logic? Reason? Tradition? “Ideation” Natural Law Originalism? Analytic? The Words Positivism Inductive? Power Skepticism Pragmatism “Crits”
“The Triangle” Understanding Jurisprudence -- One of things that might be helpful is to relate these three basic concerns to the way human existence is structured -- Hence, “the triangle.” God? Logic? Reason? Tradition? “Ideation” Natural Law Originalism? Analytic? The Words Positivism Inductive? Power Skepticism Pragmatism “Crits”
what is a “calorie?” • True by contemplation – • Things true by the relations of concepts and ideas • Things that are abstract • what is “efficiency” • what is a “mode” (modality) • what is the difference between kind and type? • Basic idea: • Thinking, contemplating • Finding meaning without having to look at something “the concept of” something the essence of something?
True by contemplation – • Things true by the relations of concepts and ideas • Things that are abstract Is “Justice” an idea that is like this? Is “Equality” like this? • Basic idea: • Thinking, contemplating • Finding meaning without having to look at something
To what extent does legal reasoning, like ALL forms of reasoning, involve a conceptual dimension? • True by contemplation – • Things true by the relations of concepts and ideas • Things that are abstract • Words that describe this dimension: • Analytic, conceptual, philosophic • Basic idea: • Thinking, contemplating • Finding meaning without having to look at something My Term: “Ideation”
i Ostensible Verifiability
i Seeing is believing Empiricism • “Ostentation” • “ostensibly true” • seems to be true • apparently true • -- true by the 5 senses
ideation i ostensible verifiability o.v.
ideation i ostensible verifiability • Feelings • Truth makes you happy or sad • You want reality to be a certain way • You invest in your faiths • Passions o.v. Desire Psychology
ideation I Ostensible Verifiability Psychology of Desire the triangle O.V. P.D.
“Logic” the triangle Fact Feeling
Finding the Triangle in Grammar • Subject #1 #2 #3 • Economics: value price satisfaction • Science: calculations observations experience • Existence: mind body soul • Engineering: function form utility • Law: justice text power • principles words results • Meaning: abstract concrete subjective • Interpretation: conceptual literal hegemonic
Finding the Triangle in Grammar • Subject #1 #2 #3 • Economics: value price satisfaction • Science: calculations observations experience • Existence: mind body soul • Engineering: function form utility • Law: justice text power • principles words results • Meaning: abstract concrete subjective • Interpretation: conceptual literal hegemonic
Finding the Triangle in Grammar • Subject #1 #2 #3 • Economics: value price satisfaction • Science: calculations observations experience • Existence: mind body soul • Engineering: function form utility • Law: justice text power • principles words results • Meaning: abstract concrete subjective • Interpretation: conceptual literal hegemonic Ideation
Finding the Triangle in Grammar • Subject #1 #2 #3 • Economics: value price satisfaction • Science: calculations observations experience • Existence: mind body soul • Engineering: function form utility • Law: justice text power • principles words results • Meaning: abstract concrete subjective • Interpretation: conceptual literal hegemonic Verifiability
Finding the Triangle in Grammar • Subject #1 #2 #3 • Economics: value price satisfaction • Science: calculations observations experience • Existence: mind body soul • Engineering: function form utility • Law: justice text power • principles words results • Meaning: abstract concrete subjective • Interpretation: conceptual literal hegemonic • Avoid Intellectual pitfalls: • 1. Don’t impose a dichotomy upon life. • 2. It reinforces two-dimensional thought • 3. seeing three dimensions makes you more comprehensive • 4. critics and skeptics often utilize two-dimensional thought • 5. philosophers see 3 dimension Desire
“Logic” the triangle Fact Feeling
Ideals (principles) Natural Law Positivism Anti-foundationalism Text (words) the triangle Results (policy)
Ideals (principles) Natural Law Positivism Anti-foundationalism Ronald Dworkin! Text (words) the triangle Results (policy) • They all play some intelligent role in the process of decision?
Ideals (principles) Natural Law Positivism Anti-foundationalism Text (words) the triangle Results (policy) • Does this make judging a recipe or a concoction? If so, is it more like cooking (more than one answer -- Cajun, Mexican, French – or is it more like chemistry (the right blend of motor oil?).
Ideals (principles) Natural Law Positivism Anti-foundationalism Text (words) the triangle Results (policy) And now, the “schools” …
God’s will? Ideals (principles) Natural Law Positivism Anti-foundationalism Text (words) the triangle Results (policy)
God’s will? – Divine right Ideals (principles) Natural Law Positivism Anti-foundationalism Text (words) the triangle Results (policy)
God’s will? – Divine right Tradition and Reason? Ideals (principles) Natural Law Positivism Anti-foundationalism Text (words) the triangle Results (policy)
God’s will? – Divine right Tradition and Reason? -- CLT Ideals (principles) Natural Law Positivism Anti-foundationalism Text (words) the triangle Results (policy)
God’s will? – Divine right Tradition and Reason? -- CLT Ideals (principles) Natural Law Empirical science? Positivism Anti-foundationalism Text (words) the triangle Results (policy)
God’s will? – Divine right Tradition and Reason? -- CLT Ideals (principles) Natural Law Empirical science? -- Soc. Juris Positivism Anti-foundationalism Text (words) the triangle Results (policy)
God’s will? – Divine right Tradition and Reason? -- CLT Ideals (principles) Natural Law Empirical science? --Soc. Juris Positivism Anti-foundationalism Text (words) the triangle Results (policy) Assembly intent?
God’s will? – Divine right Tradition and Reason? -- CLT Ideals (principles) Natural Law Empirical science? --Soc. Juris Positivism Anti-foundationalism Text (words) the triangle Results (policy) Assembly intent? – “Hard Positivism”
God’s will? – Divine right Tradition and Reason? -- CLT Ideals (principles) Natural Law Empirical science? --Soc. Juris Positivism Anti-foundationalism Text (words) the triangle Results (policy) Assembly intent? – “Hard Positivism” Canonical reading?
God’s will? – Divine right Tradition and Reason? -- CLT Ideals (principles) Natural Law Empirical science? --Soc. Juris Positivism Anti-foundationalism Text (words) the triangle Results (policy) Assembly intent? – “Hard Positivism” Canonical reading? – Analytical Positivism
God’s will? – Divine right Tradition and Reason? -- CLT Ideals (principles) Natural Law Empirical science? --Soc. Juris Positivism Anti-foundationalism Text (words) the triangle Results (policy) Assembly intent? – “Hard Positivism” Canonical reading? – Analytical Positivism Great essences behind words?
God’s will? – Divine right Tradition and Reason? -- CLT Ideals (principles) Natural Law Empirical science? --Soc. Juris Positivism Anti-foundationalism Text (words) the triangle Results (policy) Assembly intent? – “Hard Positivism” Canonical reading? – Analytical Positivism Great essences behind words? – “Inductive Positivism”
God’s will? – Divine right Tradition and Reason? -- CLT Ideals (principles) Natural Law Empirical science? --Soc. Juris Positivism Anti-foundationalism Text (words) the triangle Results (policy) Assembly intent? – “HP” Preserve power structure? -- Canonical reading? – AP Great essences behind words? – IP
God’s will? – Divine right Tradition and Reason? -- CLT Ideals (principles) Natural Law Empirical science? --Soc. Juris Positivism Anti-foundationalism Text (words) the triangle Results (policy) Assembly intent? – “HP” Preserve power structure? -- pragmatism Canonical reading? – AP Great essences behind words? – IP
God’s will? – Divine right Tradition and Reason? -- CLT Ideals (principles) Natural Law Empirical science? --Soc. Juris Positivism Anti-foundationalism Text (words) the triangle Results (policy) Assembly intent? – “HP” Preserve power structure? -- pragmatism Canonical reading? – AP disrupt power structure? Great essences behind words? – IP
God’s will? – Divine right Tradition and Reason? -- CLT Ideals (principles) Natural Law Empirical science? --Soc. Juris Positivism Anti-foundationalism Text (words) the triangle Results (policy) Assembly intent? – “HP” Preserve power structure? -- pragmatism Canonical reading? – AP disrupt power structure? -- CLS Great essences behind words? – IP
God’s will? – Divine right Tradition and Reason? -- CLT Ideals (principles) Natural Law Empirical science? --Soc. Juris Positivism Anti-foundationalism Text (words) the triangle Results (policy) Assembly intent? – “HP” Preserve power structure? -- pragmatism Canonical reading? – AP disrupt power structure? -- CLS Great essences behind words? – IP vote your ideology?