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Equity and the Rule of Justice

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Justice, Law, and Argument

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Of all the virtues that should guide our conduct, two have always been considered rational: prudence and justice.1

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  1. For the beginning of this chapter, see ‘The rule of justice’ in Ch. Perelman, The Idea of Justice and the Problem of Argument, The Humanities Press, New York, 1963, pp. 79–87.

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  2. Cf. G. Grua, Jurisprudence universelle et théodicie selon Leibniz, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1953, p. 212.

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  3. Ibid., p. 507.

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  4. Cf. my essay The rule of justice,’ op. cit, p. 82.

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  5. Eugene Dupreel, Traité de Morale, Editions de la Revue de l’Université de Bruxelles, Brussels, 1932, Vol. II, p. 485.

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  6. The rule of justice,’ op. cit, p. 82.

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  7. Cf. Marcus George Singer, Generalization in Ethics, Knopf, New York, 1961, p. 5.

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  8. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, trans. H. Rackham, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1912,1137b.

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  9. ‘Concerning justice,’ in The Idea of Justice and the Problem of Argument, op. cit., p. 36.

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  10. Cf. Edward H. Levi, An Introduction to Legal Reasoning, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1961.

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  11. Belgian Pasicrisie, 1880, I, 292.

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  12. Cf. Levi, op. cit. See also Rupert Cross, Precedent in English Law, Oxford University Press, New York, 1961.

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  13. Cf. Centre Beige de recherches de logique, Le Fait et le Droit, Bruylant, Brussels, 1961.

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  1. Centre de Philosophie du Droit, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

    Ch. Perelman

  2. Harvard University, USA

    Harold J. Berman (Ames Professor of Law)

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Perelman, C., Berman, H.J. (1980). Equity and the Rule of Justice. In: Justice, Law, and Argument. Synthese Library, vol 142. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9010-4_3

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