I begin by giving an outline of the philosophical foundations of Ross's legal philosophy (Section 2) and proceed to consider Ross's discussion of the dualism of reality and validity and the resulting
antinomies in the concept of law (Section 3), in the concept of the sources of law (Section 4), and in the concept of subjective law (Section 5), as well as the solutions proposed by Ross to the various
antinomies (Section 6).
Transcendental idealism is part of the response to Pyrrhonism, since it shows that the conflicts involved in the
antinomies are actually illusory.
(3) For is it not also true that, when understood literally, those
antinomies that Jameson proposes should rather lead to the entirely opposite conclusion, that we cannot know what globalization is.
More realistically, Caleb Williams explores the inability of consciousness to escape from its
antinomies, which make the mind (as Hegel was to say) both master and slave.
Precisely by locating human distress in the "phenomenon of
antinomies" (for instance, between the witness of faith and the fear of death, or the fear of war and the anxiety for nuclear disarmament), Gaudium et spes systematically presented the validity of human anxiety.
Hence, in "Vacillation," when "The Soul" instructs "The Heart" to "Seek out reality, leave things that seem" (Collected Poems 252), the "The Heart" responds, "What, be a singer born and lack a theme?" As the speaker says in Part I of "Vacillation," if all the
antinomies are destroyed, "What is the Joy?" (Collected Poems 250).
DeKoven follows up this discussion with a recognition that Fredric Jameson's contention that modernity's contradictions have dissolved into
antinomies that are incapable of resolution.
Her story alone conveys the beauty of Orthodoxy: the absolute mystery of faith, prayerfully witnessing in the midst of
antinomies that refuse easy resolution.
C'est que l'echelle temporelle, associee a l'idee de progres esthetique, forme une machine a casser et classer les
antinomies. Les presupposes de la critique se lisent ainsi dans le kaleidoscope de l'oeuvre de Rimbaud.
But Rowse's framework also yields a striking take on one of the central
antinomies in the debate over Indigenous public policy in Australia: self-determination versus assimilation.
Working from the premise that Faulkner's knowledge of 'the treacherous nature of his medium may have led to his break from established practice to effect "a dialogic tension" among
antinomies in the language and form of his fiction' (p.
Chretien's particularly ardent attachment to pragmatic governance provided fertile soil for such
antinomies.
