By Leonard Shlain
ISBN-10: 1101573910
ISBN-13: 9781101573914
This groundbreaking booklet proposes that the increase of alphabetic literacy reconfigured the human mind and taken approximately profound alterations in historical past, faith, and gender family members. Making extraordinary connections throughout mind functionality, delusion, and anthropology, Dr. Shlain exhibits why pre-literate cultures have been mostly proficient by way of holistic, right-brain modes that commemorated the Goddess, photographs, and female values. Writing drove cultures towards linear left-brain considering and this shift dissatisfied the stability among women and men, beginning the decline of the female and ushering in patriarchal rule. reading the cultures of the Israelites, Greeks, Christians, and Muslims, Shlain reinterprets historic myths and parables in mild of his idea. Provocative and encouraging, this e-book is a paradigm-shattering paintings that may remodel your view of historical past and the brain.
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Harlan's argument here is structurally identical to Stewart's substantive due process rationale in Roe v. Wade. Since we are mainly interested in Roe, I postpone criticism of this kind of rationale until I consider it in the context of Stewart's opinion in Roe. Suffice it to say that the problems are formidable and account for the fact that Douglas avoided appealing to substantive due process in his Griswold opinion, as he had earlier tried to avoid it in his Skinner opinion. Writing for the Court, which agreed with Harlan that Connecticut's statute was unconstitutional, Douglas based his decision in Griswold on the statute's authorization of undue interference with intrafamilial relationships.
The reason, said Brennan, is this: "The marital couple is not an independent entity with a mind and heart of its own, but an association of two individuals, each with a separate intellectual and emotional makeup. If the right of privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child. "24 Brennan here takes the notion of privacy away from the intrafamilial context in which it was developed by Douglas in Griswold and applies it to the notion developed in Skinner that people have a fundamental right to control their procreation.
So the Griswold decision reinforces the view generalized from the Pierce decision that people have special rights regarding intrafamilial relationships. Harlan, in contrast, rejected the view that the Bill of Rights protects more than the rights explicitly mentioned therein. He maintained, instead, that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects certain fundamental rights, regardless of the fact that those rights are not mentioned in the Constitution. Following a generalization from the Skinner decision, he includes among these the right to control one's own procreative powers.
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