Last night kept awake for a time by panic thought about this! Why not cool: what does it matter to confess errors even as large as this at my age? (Life of errors: why have I had success?)I find the poignancy of this almost overwhelming. This is a man who had single-handedly revived the entire field of Anglophone legal philosophy, setting the agenda for both general jurisprudence and criminal legal theory ... and he is kept awake at nights by panic at his inability to formulate a full response to his critics, a panic that has him seeing his whole life as one of errors.
(From Nicola Lacey's A Life of H.L.A. Hart)
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