[lit-ideas] Dworkin and Grice
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:27:09 -0500 (EST)
In a message dated 2/22/2013 7:50:51 P.M. UTC-02, rpaul@xxxxxxxx quotes
from
_http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/15/us/ronald-dworkin-legal-philosopher-dies-at-81.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1_
(http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/15/us/ronald-dworkin-legal-philosopher-dies-at-81.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1)
&
which reads:
"The two men [Dworkin and Hart] first met when Professor Hart was by
happenstance assigned to evaluate Mr. Dworkin’s final examination at Oxford.
The
American student excited and scared Professor Hart, his biographer, Nicola
Lacey, wrote in 2004, referring to Professor Hart by his first name. “
Herbert went on to express considerable anxiety about this student’s views for
the arguments of ‘The Concept of Law,’ ” she wrote. Professor Dworkin’s
later work, she added, amounted to “a devastating critical onslaught” on
Professor Hart’s “overschematic account of adjudication.” Years later, when
Professor Dworkin succeeded Professor Hart in the Oxford chair of
jurisprudence, the older man gave an after-dinner speech quoting from the
student
paper, which he had saved."
Interestingly, Dworkin apparently never 'read' (as the Brits call it) philo
but law at Oxford (*). Similarly, Hart was by some philosophers like Grice
_NOT CONSIDERED_ a philosopher when he became prof of jurisprudence!?
Cheers,
Speranza
(* From link above: "After graduating from Harvard, he attended Oxford as a
Rhodes scholar and obtained law degrees from both places.")
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