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Comment On Fikentscher's Paper -- Modes Of Thought In Law And Justice -- A Preliminary Report On A Study In Legal Anthropology, Jerome Hall
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Jurisprudence And Gender, Robin West
Jurisprudence And Gender, Robin West
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What is a human being? Legal theorists must, perforce, answer this question: jurisprudence, after all, is about human beings. The task has not proven to be divisive. In fact, virtually all modern American legal theorists, like most modern moral and political philosophers, either explicitly or implicitly embrace what I will call the "separation thesis" about what it means to be a human being: a "human being," whatever else he is, is physically separate from all other human beings. I am one human being and you are another, and that distinction between you and me is central to the meaning of …