Law in Contemporary Society

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  • This is an unbeautiful and unwise joke. If the Aeneid is not objectively beautiful, it remains for you to explain why. If either it is objectively beautiful, or your claim that there exists a theory of objective aesthetics is total rubbish, then the attitudes of those who don't read Latin or cannot find an adequate translation of the Aeneid into their own language (which is hard in English because, given the work's immense appeal to 100 generations of human beings, there are unsurprisingly at least six wonderful and different translations) would go no further than to show that burning books is almost as foolish as burning people for not reading them. Had you ever read the Aeneid, I suspect, you probably wouldn't forget how to spell the author's name.
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  • Actually, as a classics major in college, I was fortunate to study not just the Aeneid, but also a number of Vergil’s other works in their original language. I spell “Virgil” “Vergil” because that is the original Latin spelling. Vergil’s full name was “Publius Vergilius Maro.” The spellings are interchangeable in Classical scholarship. See, for example, Reading Vergil’s Aeneid: An Interpretive Guide, ed. by Christine Perkell (1999). See also UPenn's Vergil Project and the Works of P. Vergilius Maro at both the Perseus Project and the Latin Library. Also see Google.
  More recently, the son of Vladimir Nabokov faces the dilemma of whether or not to destroy his father’s last unpublished work as per the literary giant’s instructions before his death. An objective theory would quash both the fee holder’s and the artist’s rights while elevating the interests of society at large.

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