Political agency depends on human intelligence, skill, and chosen use of freedom
Evidence
It is a feature of the human predicament (and so of the legislative one) that we labour under two connected handicaps whenever we seek to regulate, unambiguously and in advance, some sphere of conduct by means of general standards to be used without further official direction on particular occasions. The first handicap is our relative ignorance of fact: the second is our relative indeterminacy of aim. — HLA Hart, The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law…, 368 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Humans face ignorance of facts and indeterminacy of aim when regulating conduct — HLA Hart, The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law…, 368; Individual moral courage defies class, education, and political determinants — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 48; A processual perspective links specific conditions to workers’ political recognition capacities. — Donatella della Porta et al., Mobilizing Against the Odds: Solidarity…, 120
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Broader Connections
- Humans face ignorance of facts and indeterminacy of aim when regulating conduct
#corroborates(0.75) — HLA Hart, The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law…, 368