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THE WIDENING
GYRE OF
DIGNITY
Stu Woolman
Turning and turning in the widening gyre,
The falcon cannot hear the falconer.
WB Yeats The second coming
As essentially a court lawyer, with no formal training in philosophy, I
dare to take my stand on Kant because his imperatives encapsulate for
me, by way of contrast and in the rationally most compelling manner
that I have been able to discover, what was so obscene about apartheid.
It serves as a constant reminder of our very ugly recent past. As a
reforming Constitution, it is right that human dignity should be so highly
valued.
LWH Ackermann ‘The nature of the South African legal revolution’ 1
Nobody crowds you, and nobody goes it alone.
B Springsteen Long walk home
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LWH Ackermann ‘The legal nature of the South African constitutional revolution’
(2004) 4 New Zealand Law Review 650.
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