Abstract: In the last chapter we saw how the world of Creon and Antigone was realised in practice for law and lawyers and the connections to rules and certainty that it had. We saw how in this legalistic world view there was both a psychological and a cognitive problem. How the desire for certainty led to the fixing of modes of ordering both of oneself and society by heteronomous rules; how the strength of this desire was so great that even when rules were seen as wrong the only way to deal with them was by dispensing with them. For rules were seen as something that must be obeyed; either you obey them or you do not have them. That is why some of those keenest in their proclamation of the plasticity of life are really legalists who cannot cope with the burden of rules.
Publication Year: 2001
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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