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48 S. C. L. Rev. 293 (1996-1997)
Counterpoise of Contracts: The Reasonable Person Standard and the Subjectivity of Judgment, The

handle is hein.journals/sclr48 and id is 305 raw text is: THE COUNTERPOISE OF CONTRACTS: THE REASONABLE PERSON STANDARD AND THE SUBJECTIVITY OF JUDGMENT Larry A. DiMatteo [T]he law that is in us by nature is nothing else than the reasoning creature's sharing in the eternal law. Saint Thomas Aquinas** I. INTRODUCTION ......................... A. The Twentieth Century Revolution: Subjectivism Versus Objectivism ..................... B. The Domain of the External ............... C. Symmetry of Form and Cardozo's Objective Change. D. The Reasonable Person Standard ............ E. The Reasonable Person's Predisposition Towards Intentionality ........................ II. THE ROOTS OF THE REASONABLE PERSON ......... A. The Religious Reasonable Person ............ B. The Philosophical Reasonable Person ......... C. Psychoanalyzing the Reasonable Person ........ D. The Judicial Mind and the Reasonable Person .... Im. FABRICATING THE REASONABLE PERSON .......... A. The Parties and the Totality of the Circumstances . . An Aside: The Main Purpose Doctrine ...... B. Custom and Trade Usage: The Reasonable Person Is a Working Person .................... 1. A Reason to Know: The Restatement (Second) of Contracts and the Reasonable Person ....... 2. The Reasonable Person as a Precursor ...... 3. Llewellyn 's Double-Barreled Objectivity ...... 4. The Language of the Reasonable Person...... C. From Who's Perspective Does the Reasonable Person View the Contractual Landscape? ............ 1. The Reasonable Person as Promisee ........ 2. The Reasonable Person as Promisor ........ ...... 294 ...... 295 ...... 297 ...... 299 ...... 301 ...... 303 ...... 305 ...... 305 ...... 309 ...... 314 ...... 316 ...... 317 ...... 318 ...... 324 ...... 325 ...... 327 ...... 328 ...... 329 ...... 331 ...... 332 ...... 333 ...... 333 * Assistant Professor of Business Law, University of Miami; B.A./B.A., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1979; J.D., The Cornell Law School, 1982. ** Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, in THOMAS AQUINAS SELECTED PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS 419 (Timothy McDermott trans., 1993) (emphasis added).

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