身披法袍的正义

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• Academic defenders of legal positivism, like Coleman and Raz, remain. But their rguments, as i have tried to show, have the artificiality and strain of theories that defenders of a sacred faith construct in the face of embarrassing evidence. What is that sacred faith? The remaining positivists are not political conservatives who hope to resist the spread of individual and minority righs by insisting on a majoritarian conception of law. On the contrary, they argue that legal positivism imposes no constraints on what judges and legal officials actually do; they have traveled far from Bentham and from Erie. They celebrate positivism as an accurate description of the very concept of law or as the most illuminating theoretical description of legal phenomena over time. Sometimes they treat these... (查看原文)

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• 在演讲中，徳沃金引用古希腊诗人阿奇洛库斯的名言来为自己盖棺论定：“孤狸知道很多事，但刺猬只知道一件大事。”而这一隐喻曾经被英国思想家以赛亚・柏林引用，来形容俄罗斯两位著名的文学家托尔斯泰与陀思妥耶夫斯基。德沃金认为，这也可比喻两种类型的哲学家：狐狸型的哲学家对正义抱有怀疑态度，所论之道德困局，往往发人深省；但刺猬型哲学家不同，他们直指根本问题，要给出一个终极答案。他觉得，自己终身所做的工作，便是尽一个刺猬型哲学家的天职 (查看原文)

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