How Different Legal Systems Were Designed (Fernanda Pirie, Oxford)
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- The Michael Shermer Show # 236
Rulers throughout history have used laws to impose order. But laws were not simply instruments of power and social control. They also offered ordinary people a way to express their diverse visions for a better world. The variety of the world’s laws has long been almost as great as the variety of its societies.
In this conversation, Shermer speaks with Oxford professor of the anthropology of law, Fernanda Pirie, who traces the rise and fall of the sophisticated legal systems underpinning ancient empires and religious traditions, showing how common people - tribal assemblies, merchants, farmers - called on laws to define their communities, regulate trade, and build civilizations. What truly unites human beings, Pirie argues, is our very faith that laws can produce justice, combat oppression, and create order from chaos.
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This is the 2nd time in 2 different interviews that you have quoted Diamond's pretense of a mathematical social science. Why are so enchanted with this?
I'm a bit late to this but, beautiful talk ! Thanks for this!
i like laws. they keep things simple. -JC
The implication of question 51:50 most certainly would not involve only one religion, but encompass all of them if religion is fundamental.
If not, it would seem then to say, we are better than that...
*14:00** this is why we need a bill of rights.* -JC
Michael, check out Harvard wonk Harold Berman's "Law and Revolution."
1:16:00 human rights ii
*1:23:00** i think you could vote on the blockchain.* may be the only thing you can do w it, but that is hopefully where it lands. -JC
Remember The Ballad of Narayama?
Where I come from the curriculum of orientation starts off with the abc's, 123's. With another focus towards your faith if it was not already included at the school and then back to public school to pledge allegiance to the flag under God, with civics included later on after the pump was already primed... civics teaching almost at the age considered okay to fight in wars, but not old enough to drink alcohol.
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You seem to accept the Marxist dogma unquestioningly that colonialism was bad, all bad. European governments, like all others in history, took lands by force when they could and when it suited their interests. European nations at the height of colonialism were concerned to lock up strategic locations and natural resourcs for their industries before their competitors or enemies did. European colonial governments tended to suppress personal and group violence, witch hunts, cannibalism, and human scrifice. They also built physical, educational, and yes legal infrastructure. I contend Eropean law was usually more just than native law. I spoke to an immigrant cab driver in Washington, D. C. several years ago. He was a native of a west African coastal Brisih colony that achieved independence shorly before he left. I asked him under wich government life was better. His reply was startlingly swift and decisive. You should be able to guess.
"Marxist dogma" A lot of schools of tough consider colonialism all bad. Including many classical liberal ones. We have an alternative to colonialism, it is called commerce.
35:00 Shermer doesn't know anything about the rittemhouse case. What a clown.
Perhaps you want your narrative to be the focus, and if you don't get it your way, you stamp your feet. I think it should be you in the clown outfit for making a cryptic remark.
The discussion is not about you. See you in on the high-wire, Bozo.
And Shermer wrote another dumb article about trans in female sports. But would he talk with someone like Philip W. Cook or Donald Dutton? No. I was right in stop caring about him...
Huh
He doesn't care about you, too, I suspect.
She is not an honest person. You can see in her answers. She knows something while saying something else.