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Are civilians educable?*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Pierre Legrand
Pierre Legrand*
Affiliation:
Tilburg University, The Netherlands
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All the efforts of human reason tend to the elimination of [the other]. The other does not exist: such is rational faith, the incurable belief of human reason. Identity = reality, as if, in the end, everything must absolutely and necessarily be one and the same. But, the other refuses to disappear: it subsists, it persists; it is the hard bone on which reason breaks its teeth. [There is] what might be called the incurable otherness from which oneness must always suffer.

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Research Article
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Legal Studies , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , June 1998, pp. 216 - 230
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Copyright © Society of Legal Scholars 1998

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Footnotes

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I am most grateful to Linda Rae Legault who helped to frame the thesis and enhance its legibility. I am also indebted to Hugh Beale for generously inviting me to address the 1997 edition of the Annual Conference of the Society of Public Teachers of Law in Wanvick, where I presented an early version of this paper. The usual disclaimer applies. Translations are mine.