By Dov Silberman
Colarado National Monument by Pdell
In the last post we raised three different legal maxims, each separately showing the superiority of truth, justice or peace. Is there a Supreme Value, and if so, which is it?
Jewish jurisprudence grapples with this question.
By Dov Silberman
OMNIA DICTA FORTIORA SI DICTA LATINA
Golden Lady Justice, Bruges, Belgium
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ensh/6204837462/
“Everything sounds more impressive when said in Latin”.
So to start this blog, here are three differing Latin legal maxims, with a little excursus on their history, each of which demonstrates a different approach to solving conflicts. We then pose the question of which principle trumps the other – justice, truth or peace. In my next post, I will present a Talmudic discussion on the same question, and which indicates that the three approaches represented different views of Jewish jurisprudential activism, going back a very long time.