Law in Contemporary Society

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 Judge Day offers a seemingly similar view: “Perhaps the finest lawyer I’ve ever known used to say—it was one of his cardinal rules—if you look hard enough for an answer, you’ll find it. Everything’s there, you just have to look for it.” But the lawyer later reappears to urge, “Do whatever you can to achieve your objective.” That statement, to me, recasts the first to mean that there will always be an argument to make for your objective. One side never definitively conquers the other. Like the young counterfeiter, Bartleby, or the Underground Man, we may always resist from unlikely positions with unlikely methods. So society remains in flux, in a perpetual state of civil wars, with “no one in complete agreement with anyone else about any of it.” An ongoing battle of wills determines reality and meaning.
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<		Epistemological certainty may be untenable, and its pursuit could be an enervating roadblock to will formation and action. As Robert Frost quipped, “A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.” I would hope, though, that it’s possible to take some core of personal meaning and individual purpose on faith—which I believe is consistent with Rilke—while allowing doubt and reflection to broaden horizons and provide tactical awareness. This perhaps approaches what’s meant by the buzzword ‘empathy,’ and its calling card might be to reconcile opposing types by facilitating plural understanding.
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>		Epistemological certainty may be untenable, and its pursuit could hinder will formation and action. As Robert Frost quipped, “A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.” I would hope, though, that it’s possible to take some core of personal meaning and individual purpose on faith—which I believe is consistent with Rilke—while allowing doubt and reflection to broaden horizons and provide tactical awareness. This perhaps approaches what’s meant by the buzzword ‘empathy,’ and its calling card might be to reconcile opposing types by facilitating plural understanding.
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