Humane Studies Review - Spring 1987

A Research and Study Guide

PDF Version Institute for Humane Studies 4/6/1987

Volume 4, Number 2

Inside HSR:

• What is Critical Legal Studies? What are its main tenets? What does it have to say about the liberal conception of human responsibility and agency? Drew Clark criticizes the "critters." 
  
• Historian and social scientist Sheilagh Ogilvie challenges classical liberals to create a new liberal history. 
  
• Can a contractarian theory of morals in the tradition of Hobbes answer the question, "Why be moral?". David Boonin looks at Morals by Agreement by philosopher David Gauthier. 
  
• Discussion: Communitarians and Liberals; Taxpayers' History.