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Truth Or Consequences In Legal Scholarship?, David R. Barnhizer
Truth Or Consequences In Legal Scholarship?, David R. Barnhizer
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There has been an erosion of the ideal of truth as a guiding force for what we do. This includes a dishonoring of the tradition of the truth-seeking function of scholars. For the university-based intellectual, including legal scholars, the problem with commitments to ends other than truth-seeking is that once we accept a mission distinct from the pursuit of truth and honest discourse, most of the remaining options are suspect - including falseness, hypocrisy, self-deception, subordination of self to a collective, profit, dogmatism, devotion to tradition, and propaganda.
Although what we intend by the idea of truth - legal, scientific, …