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Telegram from Robert S. Northrop
Telegram concerning acceptance of a position at Utah Agricultural College
Letter from Robert S. Northrop
Letter concerning a position in horticulture and botany at Utah Agricultural College
Obstacles to a World Legal Order and Their Removal
T HE present need for a world legal order is obvious. In an atomicage the settlement of international disputes by resort to forcerather than by recourse to law is so likely, if not absolutely certain,to mean the end of civilization that it involves a risk which no wiseman, if he can avoid it, will take.One may well ask why in the face of this fact, evident to all, recentattempts at a legal world order have failed to achieve their goal. Certainlythe time has come when the cause of this failure must be determinedand if possible removed
Philosophical Issues in Contemporary Law
PHILOSOPHY is the name for the basic methodological and theoretical assumptionsof a subject. Since every science uses some method of investigationand any scientist who reports facts to his colleagues must express these factsin words and, hence, introduce concepts and theory, it follows that anyscience whatever is also a philosophy. When no facts arise, however, tobring the traditional theory or methods of a subject into question, its problemsare not philosophical. Then to be a scientist one need not also be a philosopher.Mathematics and physics were in such a state during the two hundred yearsfollowing the publication of Newton\u27s Principia in 1686. American lawthought it was in a similar condition when, following Langdell, it introducedthe case method and identified its science with the empirical study of cases.But whenever facts arise in any subject which bring its traditional theory ormethods into question, at that moment its problems become philosophical.Then to be an effective scientist one must also be a philosopher. Such hasbeen the state of mathematics and physics since the end of the nineteenthcentury. Such, as this essay indicates, is the state of law at the present time
International Conflict and Means of Resolution
Although the topic, upon which I have been asked to speak, may seem especially academic, in view of the present state of the world, it none the less has important implications for you as military men
Law, Language and Morals
THERE is an essential connection between law, language and morals. It becomesevident when one notes what law and morals have in common and considersthe language of specific moral and legal theories.Both law and morals are normative subjects. They deal with value termsas well as with language that refer to some nonnormatively described is. Inlaw, the is appears as the facts of the case, whereas the normative factorexhibits itself in such words as innocent, guilty, delict, right, liability, obligation and murder. In personal morality, religion, art and literature realism purports merely to exhibit or describe what is, but with atension of conscience that combines the ought and the is, adding evaluativeterms such as good, bad, sin, virtue, ought, beautiful, ugly, selfish, self-sacrificingly God-committed or aesthetically sensitive or insensitive
Naturalistic and Cultural Foundations for a More Effective International Law
INTERNATIONAL like domestic law must face the difficult question ofnorms. Without common norms between the nations and the cultures ofthe world there can be no effective international law. How are such universalnorms for an effective international law to be found ?Contemporary developments in the social sciences and in the philosophyof natural science indicate that there are two sources. One is in the normscommon to the diverse cultures of the world. The other is in scientificallyverified philosophy of nature. The former source happens to be intimatelyconnected with the latter
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