Gabriel Kennedy

Is law fundamentally natural or man-made? Are there constraints on possible law beyond whatever governments can enforce with threats of violence? Does rule of law, not men, have any meaning if laws are always enforced and interpreted by men?

Can we make objective judgments of beauty? Is beauty only in the eye of the beholder? The following essay argues that we can indeed make objective judgments of beauty, although beauty itself is nothing other than a kind of subjective experience of pleasure.