Author : Frédéric Gilles Sourgens
Publisher : International and Comparative
ISBN 13 : 9789004522374
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (223 download)
Book Synopsis Good Faith in Transnational Law by : Frédéric Gilles Sourgens
Download or read book Good Faith in Transnational Law written by Frédéric Gilles Sourgens and published by International and Comparative. This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "They say it unwise to embark upon too large of a project in a dissertation. In fact, one should not consider a doctoral thesis to be something like a life's work. And, whatever one does, one should choose a discrete topic and stay away from the lure of insoluble theoretical morasses. As I always was more obstinate than clever, I disregarded all advice and plunged into the work you are about to read. The question I am trying to address has been with me for more than twenty-five years. It is the question that convinced to study philosophy before attempting to learn the law. It is the question that - as a bilingual perennial immigrant working in a foreign language since age seventeen - has bedeviled me for my entire adult life: how can we engage with each other and take each other seriously in all of our difference when we lack any common denominator - linguistic, ethical, cultural, social, philosophical or legal? The possibility of such an endeavor has always been a matter of Faith, faith in our ability to see the human dignity in each other, faith that our shared humanity might overcome even the most impossible of obstacles, faith that what is good in each of us will help us bridge what is peculiar"--