Stephan Schaffrath, in his paper "The Methodology of Architectonic Truth-Finding in Grass's The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel)," discusses how Günter Grass's The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) negotiates the treacherous terrains that lie between positivism and nihilistic relativism by means of a truth-finding methodology. Schaffrath proposes that truth-finding methodology applies approximative, and t...

The main aim of this paper is to tell stories about interactions between European voyagers and Aboriginal people in New Holland (mainland Australia) and Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) at the end of the eighteenth century. I start, however, with the terms in the title. First, “texts” and “discipline of praxis”.1 The discipline of praxis is, of course, history, which by professional convention is e...

The argument of theoretical disagreement has been deemed the most serious contemporary challenge to traditional views law, not merely for academic legal positivists but all lawyers and scholars. Although coined by Ronald Dworkin specific purpose opposing conventionalist positivist theories recognises general truth that jurisprudence is an inevitably agonistic enterprise. Nowadays, it one discus...

Perceived racism contributes to persistent health stress leading to health disparities. African American/Black persons (BPs) believe subtle, rather than overt, interpersonal racism is increasing. Sue and colleagues describe interpersonal racism as racial microaggressions: "routine" marginalizing indignities by White persons (WPs) toward BPs that contribute to health stress. In this narrative, e...