| | |
|
DanielMargolskeeFirstPaper 7 - 29 Jun 2009 - Main.EbenMoglen
|
| |
| META TOPICPARENT | name="FirstPaper" |
|---|
| | | Not only did Leff make that point, but he also showed that it’s source is in the “terrifying” message of the Realists, their “simultaneously horrifying and banal” recognition, in Holmes’s words, that“[n]o concrete proposition is self-evident, no matter how ready we may be to accept it,” that “certainty generally is an illusion and repose is not the destiny of man.”
But I find myself leaving class wanting to say something more about the world than can be said with the aid of simplifying assumptions or the inhibition that comes from radical uncertainty; what more, it’s hard to say.
\ No newline at end of file | |
>
> |
- This is a revision undertaken, it seems to me, with safety first in mind. This change in subject removed most of the hard parts from the argument you made the first time around, though you demonstrated then some command of material you no longer "need" to prove to me, which simplifies your work this time around.
- Your second simplification in the interest of safety, of course, is that you're no longer disagreeing with anybody about anything. The much more anodyne construction of the essay ("Look, there's law and economics all over the shop! Leff and Eben say they're all hiding out from realism but I have nothing to say myself, only a desire to say something if only something would come to me. Possibly I am being inhibited by radical uncertainty....") saves a world of wear and tear. But it's not completely satisfying, if you follow me. Not what one came for, if you catch my drift.
| | | \ No newline at end of file |
|
|
|
|
This site is powered by the TWiki collaboration platform.
All material on this collaboration platform is the property of the contributing authors.
All material marked as authored by Eben Moglen is available under the license terms CC-BY-SA version 4.
|
|
| | |