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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Copyright
- © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of University of Notre Dame. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com.
- ISSN
- 0065-8995
- eISSN
- 2049-6494
- DOI
- 10.1093/ajj/aux012
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Abstract
The American Journal of Jurisprudence, Vol. 62, No. 1 (2017), pp. 1–5 doi:10.1093/ajj/aux012 Truth and Politics: A Symposium on Peter Simpson’s Political Illiberalism: A Defense of Freedom Gerard V. Bradley There is no more important question in thinking about life—and actually living—in political community than whether it is to be permeated by, and pur- posefully oriented around, the main truths about human flourishing. It is at least paradoxical that, precisely when the state and its law and political life are shaping people’s lives more and more, the professed roots of all this influence are growing thinner, more shallow. Lawmakers who profess and in many cases even think they should be “neutral” about values are more involved with how persons’ lives go than, perhaps, ever before. Of course, any community which has lost faith in the truth about human well- being is going to be quite befuddled by the question. But the perennial centrality of the question about truth and politics can be obscured for understandable reasons. One is the immediate urgency of so many practical challenges, such as settling the defense or state budget, protecting against terrorist attack, or deciding what to do about a nuclear-armed North Korea (and
Journal
American Journal of Jurisprudence – Oxford University Press
Published: Jun 1, 2017