LAW’S QUANDARY ppt

[...]... way It may be nonsense with consequences (as Socrates’s eventual martyrdom would attest) But it is nonsense nonetheless For Socrates and his contemporaries, this was their quandary Law and the Socratic Inquiry So what might our quandary be? Today, of course, we still talk about courage, virtue, and piety (Or at least we talk about the first two of these.) And I suspect that our talk would leave a revivified... leave his listeners “spellbound.”26 So what then is Socrates’s problem? The problem is that under his examination, these answers are found to be 18 Law and Metaphysics? deficient So the dialogues end in a quandary of “aporia,” or perplexity, with even Socrates reasserting that he does not know the answer to the question These dialogues have generated a huge array of interpretations For present purposes,... say that everything we say or think is automatically in complete harmony with the inventories we hold (or think we hold) If that were so, then we would never find ourselves in the kind of metaphysical quandary that I think underlies modern frustrations in understanding law (among many other things) Nor could we ever commit the crime—or enjoy the pleasure—of uttering “just words.” But we are not so fortunate—or .