Asking the Right Questions: Harnessing the Insights of Bernard Lonergan for the Rule of Law
"We cannot endow people with intelligence. Intelligence fundamentally is this capacity to ask questions, and this capacity is entirely from nature."My concern here is the rule of law, in all its operations. I select the unexpected word "operations" in order to telegraph a differe...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2006
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Journal of law and religion
Year: 2006, Volume: 21, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-38 |
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| Summary: | "We cannot endow people with intelligence. Intelligence fundamentally is this capacity to ask questions, and this capacity is entirely from nature."My concern here is the rule of law, in all its operations. I select the unexpected word "operations" in order to telegraph a difference from much other natural law jurisprudence. The rule of law is not just a battery of operations; however, failure to appreciate the place of operations in the rule of law leads to a straw-man rule of law—and we know too well the fate of straw men. It is flesh-and-blood men and women whose operations bring about the rule of law, if a rule of law there is to be. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-3088 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of law and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0748081400002812 |