In the same way, there is a finite number of individual particles of sand on the earth at any moment in time. Human intellect and capabilities are incapable of determining that precise number; it would require a hypothetically limitless intellectual capacity. Judge Hercules possesses that infinite intelligence and also has the luxury of infinite time for contemplation. Dworkin suggests that Judge Hercules would always make the right decision and that the role of human judges is simply to aspire to be as Hercules-like as possible. Dworkin's Judge Hercules is very similar to John Rawls' allegory about the veil of ignorance that he uses to illustrate the meaning of objective justice.
Principle vs. Policy
To explain the importance of valuing principle over policy in the construct and just application of laws, Dworkin recalls an English case: McLoughlin v. O' Brian involving the emotional harm experienced by plaintiff in connection with her emotional breakdown caused by seeing the injuries to her husband and sons (at the hospital after the fact) and to being told of the loss of her daughter in a vehicular accident in which the plaintiff was at fault. Dworkin rejects the rationale of that court in allowing the plaintiff to recover despite the fact that the applicable law required as a condition for recovery for emotional distress that a plaintiff personally witness or immediately come upon the accident where a loved one is seriously injured or killed. In Dworkin's view the same decision could possibly have been reached appropriately on principle, but not on the basis...
Both of these perspectives are, from Hart's perspective, too extreme: he wants a legal theory which would be free from moral evaluations or moral commitments (unlike Finnis' approach), while remaining a descriptive theory of the practice rather than a participation in it (unlike Dworkin's approach). Hart was trying to keep a difficult middle position (Hacker, 1977-page 31). He argued that a legal theory should be constructed around the perspective
Tribe refers to what Ronald Dworkin says later in the book. Dworkin holds that everyone is an originalist now but that they are not seeking what the lawmakers expected but what they meant to say in their law, suggesting perhaps that they may not be writing laws as clearly as could be or that the vagaries of language often make it difficult to do so without some form of
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