POL 3157 Study Guide - Ronald Dworkin

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 3157
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Ronald dworkin in his work titled law as interpretation explains the difficulties of interpretation in a wide variety of areas including art, literature and law. His main thesis throughout the article is that interpretation in law is essentially political. He goes about analyzing the elements related to interpretation as well as a comparison to the theoretical approach of intention. The main issue is to decipher if there is a truth in interpretation in general, not only in the field of law. There is no doubt that ambivalence arises in all areas of interpretation since a critical judgement should only describe the state of the matter. Furthermore, dworkin acknowledges that theories of art do not exist in isolation from philosophy, psychology, sociology, and cosmology. Accompanying these fields is even more different theories of art which are generated by different theories of interpretation. Not only does dworkin take into account interpretation in its many relevant fields, he also.