LAWG 101D1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Reasonable Person, Atticus Finch, The Perfect Man
23 Jan 2018
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"bon p re de famille: colin firth, hillary clinton, dad, ned flanders, tom hanks. "left" political figured: atticus finch, santa clause, morgan freeman, dumbledore, my dad. Jack nickelson: people depends on them - they will look after authors. Herbert, "fardell v potts: not as objectionable as the economic man, the perfect man, we don"t necessarily want to be him or know him, examples: "who never drives his ball till those in front of him have definitely vacated the putting-green which is his own objective " (146) It"s a mythical standard or creature that doesn"t actually exist. However, if you hurt someone, the court will turn around and tell you that you should have acted like him. J. conaghan "tort law and the feminist critiques of reason: goals of the piece, critique of the reasonable man and explore the spectrum of ways in which other scholars have noticed problems with this reasonable man standard .
