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June 24, 2008: Sacred Science, Bruce Ledewitz Jun 2008

June 24, 2008: Sacred Science, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Sacred Science“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


May 15, 2008: David Brooks--The Neural Buddhists, Bruce Ledewitz May 2008

May 15, 2008: David Brooks--The Neural Buddhists, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “David Brooks--The Neural Buddhists“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


February 9, 2008: Darwin Day In Retrospect, Bruce Ledewitz Feb 2008

February 9, 2008: Darwin Day In Retrospect, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Darwin Day in Retrospect


January 26, 2008: Darwin Day 2008, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 2008

January 26, 2008: Darwin Day 2008, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Darwin Day 2008


January 3, 2008: Charles Taylor: A Secular Age, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 2008

January 3, 2008: Charles Taylor: A Secular Age, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Charles Taylor: A Secular Age


October 30, 2007: Hallowed Secularism And Materialism, Bruce Ledewitz Oct 2007

October 30, 2007: Hallowed Secularism And Materialism, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Hallowed Secularism and Materialism


October 5, 2007: Hallowed Secularism's Contribution To Secularism, Bruce Ledewitz Oct 2007

October 5, 2007: Hallowed Secularism's Contribution To Secularism, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Hallowed Secularism's Contribution to Secularism


August 17, 2007: The Sources Of Depth In Hallowed Secularism: Science, Bruce Ledewitz Aug 2007

August 17, 2007: The Sources Of Depth In Hallowed Secularism: Science, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

The Sources of Depth in Hallowed Secularism: Science


Science, Humanity, And Atrocity: A Lawyerly Examination, Steven D. Smith May 2006

Science, Humanity, And Atrocity: A Lawyerly Examination, Steven D. Smith

Michigan Law Review

Joseph Vining's reflection on (as the subtitle indicates) the claims of science and humanity begins with a terse but disturbing recitation of these and similar scientific experiments conducted on human beings during the twentieth century in Manchuria, Nazi Germany, and Pol Pot's Cambodia. The incidents are conveyed through quotations, sometimes of the coldly clinical prose that the researchers themselves chose as most suitable for their purposes. These quotations are juxtaposed against others from an array of distinguished scientists and philosophers explaining the naturalistic cosmology that, in the view of these thinkers, modern science has given us: it is a stark, …


Law And Phrenology, Pierre Schlag Jan 1997

Law And Phrenology, Pierre Schlag

Publications

As the intellectual credentials of American law become increasingly dubious, the question arises: how has this discipline been intellectually organized to sustain belief among its academic practitioners? This Commentary explores the nineteenth-century pseudo-science of phrenology as a way of gaining insight into the intellectual organization of American law. Although there are, obviously, significant differences, the parallels are at once striking and edifying. Both phrenology and law emerged as disciplinary knowledges through attempts to cast them in the form of sciences. In both cases, the "sciences" were aesthetically organized around a fundamental ontology of reifications and animisms -- "faculties" in the …


The Cosmological Question: A Response To Milner S. Ball's 'All The Company Of Heaven', Joseph Vining Jan 1996

The Cosmological Question: A Response To Milner S. Ball's 'All The Company Of Heaven', Joseph Vining

Articles

We do not disagree, and I do not doubt, that legal processes are sources of injustice, violent oppression, crushing of the spirit, destruction of lives, actual death. I have only to look at The Trial1 again. Nor do we disagree that there are strings of words, statements, put out by officials, lawyers, and lawyer-academics, often called "rules," that cannot be taken into oneself and that by their very nature evoke manipulation in response, avoidance if they cannot be ignored. In their name violent imposition of pure will occurs all the time, and power is exercised by those who can secure …


Justifying A Search For A Unifying Theory Of Unconstitutional Conditions, Roberto L. Corrada Jan 1995

Justifying A Search For A Unifying Theory Of Unconstitutional Conditions, Roberto L. Corrada

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

This essay explores why many scholars, including Frederick Schauer and Larry Alexander, feel that an attempt at unification of the doctrine of unconstitutional conditions is unworthy of scholarly attention. Although the subject of this particular essay is less ambitious than the many attempts that have been made to unify the doctrine of unconstitutional conditions, and indeed proposes no unifying theory itself, it nevertheless examines why attempts to explain the doctrine in a unified way might be valid even if no unification is ultimately possible. It also attempts to persuade that a unifying theory of the doctrine may be attainable, although …