While legal rules offer predictability by stabilising expectations normatively, they also require interpretation (by citizens, lawyers, police, judges, and so on) and in that sense, argument over the meaning of a provision or its application to any set of facts is required. Legal norms do not,...
Shklar and the meaning of legalism 43 The story of the is simple. Eteocles and Polynices, the sons of Oedipus, had agreed to rule Thebes in alternate years. Eteocles decides to stay in power an... In the opposition between law and love, there has been for too long concentration on ...
You can’t stand hanging out and spending time with people who are content with simple things, because you prefer living large, materialistic, hedonistic lifestyle, etc. When you drive down the highway over the speed limit and get pulled over because you break the law, the cop come over a...
James reiterates the power of the Law when he states: “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all” (James 2:10). It is clear, therefore, that the Law has power, but not the power to save—unless of course a person keeps all of ...
In brief, “They knew the Bible story, but did not understand its essential meaning. Bigotry made the safeguarding of their traditions more important than the recognition of new truth; indeed, the one precluded any possibility of the other. We must read God’s word with open minds and open...