LAW AND PHILOSOPHY according to ANTHONY T. KRONMAN
LAWYERING AND PHILOSOPHIZING Anthony Kronman is (or has been) a law professor, the Dean of a Law School at Yale University for a long time (as those things go, these days), and of counsel to one of America's premier litigations firms. He also got a Ph.D. in philosophy...
SOME VIRTUES OF OCCASIONAL PROCRASTINATION
Structural Procrastination Michael Sean Quinn Law Office of Michael Sean Quinn 1300 West Lynn #208 Austin, Texas 78703 mquinn@msqlaw.com (Resumes: See Website) (c) 512-656-0503 Frequently, procrastination is portrayed “in big bold letters,” as it were, as a...
LAWYERING, LEGAL ETHICS, AND PHILOSOPHY
CONFUCIUS (551-479 BC) FOR LAWYERS Michael Sean Quinn* Before (and after) I became a lawyer, I taught philosophy, and one of the areas in which I "specialized" was ethics. After I became a lawyer, I continued thinking about such matters and took up "legal...
INSURANCE LAWYERS–CURRENT HISTORY
INSURANCE LAWYERING: SOME MILD CURRENT CURRENTS Michael Sean Quinn, Ph.D., J.D., C.P.C.U. Etc.* Insurance law and practice hasn’t changed much in the last couple of decades. In part that is because insurance law itself is in...
PISSING ON THE PITHY
FALSE APHORISMS: A PREFACE Almost all aphorisms--pithy sayings that are intended to dispense wisdom--are false, misleading, actually unwise, and quite often dangerous. One can be inspired to do the wrong thing, make a mistake, or turn down the wrong road....
BULLSHIT FOR LAWYERS–A PHILOSOPHICAL GUIDE
ON BULLSHIT: A SHORT AND VIVID TREATISE FOR LAWYERS Michael Sean Quinn* Harry G. Frankfurt, a distinguished writer and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University wrote a very short book in 2005 entitled ON BULLSHIT. It was quite popular as philosophy...
LAWYERS, SELF-EXPLORATION, SPIRITUAL DEPTH, AND THE GOODNESS OF INEQUALITY
on inequality* Michael Sean Quinn** The title of this blog-essay is also the title of a book by Harry G. Frankfurt, one of the most interesting and readable social and ethics philosopher of the later...
LAWYER VIOLENT CRIME
FAMILY VIOLENCE Michael Sean Quinn* A New York personal injury (and maybe probate) litigator who lived in Fairfield Connecticut had spent his off duty time beating and stabbing members of his family. Some of the beatings were done with a baseball bat, apparently. At...
Cicero’s Axiom of Advocacy
A CICERONIAN AXIOM Michael Sean Quinn* Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC-43 BC) aka Cicero, one of history's greatest lawyers, as well as one of the top 10 orators of Western Civilization, one of the top 50 philosophers thereof, and one of its top 100 constitutionist...
LOVE, LAWYERS, AND LAW
LOVING TRUTH AND LOVING LAWYERING Michael Sean Quinn* One of the most significant American philosophers of the late Twentieth Century and on into the early 21st Century is Harry G. Frankfurt. His...
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