LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sodium Hydride, John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
26 Nov 2015
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Flow of litigation and morality murder, porn and. There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena , All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. In heaven, all the interesting people are missing. Law reflects the dominant normative positions in society (homolka depicted as woman, the passive player in a crime) Normative positions about right & wrong reflect moral positions in society. Homosexuality and the truth of medicine, of law. 1952 apa listed homosexuality in dsm as a sociopathic personality disturbance. 7th printing of dsm-ii (1974) no longer listed homosexuality as a category of disorder. Vote by apa trustees in 1973 confirmed by wider apa membership in 1974 diagnosis replaced with category of sexual orientation disturbance . We often assume that knowledge production appeals to our access to objectivity.
