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- Title: Moral Choices, Moral Truth, And the Eighth Amendment (Symposium: Law and Morality)
- Author : Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 268 KB
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What passes for normative scholarship in the law schools is often little more than making public the topography of the author's mind. I suppose this practice does have a certain appeal akin to the great national fascination with reality shows these days, (1) but it is unclear what other interests it serves than the obvious ones of getting tenure and being invited to conferences. Thus, my own scholarly efforts are directed toward propositions with truth value, and I try to leave the moralizing to others. To be sure, there can be scholarship about normative questions that is motivated by pursuit of truth, such as many of the fine efforts of Michael Moore in laying out the landscape of normative discourse. (2) Those works, however, are not normative (whatever motivates them) in the sense pertinent today, and thus they are outside my consideration.