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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2016
In opening this symposium, which has been convened on May 14, 1981, to commemorate the one hundredth birthday of the late Professor Morris R. Cohen, I need hardly state that I feel honored by being privileged to preside at its first session. It is fitting that the symposium takes place under the joint auspices and sponsorship of the Philosophy Department and Law Faculty of the Hebrew University, for the subjects of philosophy in general and legal philosophy in particular were Cohen's life-loves. In this connection, I desire to mention the credit which is due to Dr. Ruth Gavison, who teaches legal philosophy here, for thinking out the program of the symposium and undertaking the onerous task of supervising the implementation of the technical details involved in organizing this event. It is also my great pleasure to extend, on behalf of all who are assembled here, a heartfelt welcome to Dr. Leonora Cohen-Rosenfield, Professor Emeritus of the University of Maryland and daughter of Morris Cohen, as well as to her husband, Mr. Harry Rosenfield, who was her father's student and is presently a prominent Washington attorney, for having come from the United States in order to grace this symposium with their presence and indeed to be active participants therein.
1 The given date of his birth is July 25, 1880 although in his autobiography he stated: “There was some uncertainty as to whether 1880 or 1881 was my natal year”. A Dreamer's Journey (Boston Mass., 1962) 15.
2 These observations, which were not made from a prepared written text, have been somewhat elaborated here without, however, change of substance.
3 Jim Cork in “The Call”, February 10, 1947; quoted in Leonora Cohen-Rosenfield's illuminating Portrait of a Philosopher: Morris R. Cohen in Life and Letters (New York, Harcourt, 1962) p. 144.
4 I am indebted for the quotations in the text from the New York Times editorial to Professor Milton R. Konvitz's excellent analytical article on Morris R. Cohen, published in the American Jewish Yearbook, volume 49 (1947–1948) p. 49.
5 The above two quotations are taken from Leonora Cohen-Rosenfield, op. cit., pp. 149–150.
6 Konvitz, op. cit., p. 58.
7 Ibid.
8 Leonora Cohen-Rosenfield, op. cit., p. 197.
9 Ibid.
10 Op. cit., p. 56.
11 There is no mention of them in A Dreamer's Journey.
12 These words were uttered on the ceremonial occasion in 1958 when the Morris Cohen Library of the City College of New York was dedicated and at which Justice Frankfurter was the principal speaker— Frankfurter, Felix, Of Law, Life and Other Things that Matter (Cambridge Mass., Belknap of Hvd. U.P., 1965) 112.Google Scholar