The Rule of Law must be based on the Rule of Reason, a special kind of reasoning that transcends logic and science (as precious as these are) and partakes of something that is essentially an art, an activity, an enterprise, a noun-verb, a gerund: choosing, and doing, and then reviewing — and learning from — results. And then doing it again, with further revising, usually in reference to others' reactions, choices, actions, and revisions; and then again; round and round; always monitoring; learning, generation after generation; putting ourselves not only in each-others' shoes, today, but also in the shoes of future generations, future historians, future judges, future philosophers.
Let us explore the fundamental premises of this special kind of reasoning: legal reasoning.
To do so best, I am convinced, we must be ever-mindful of what is probably the purest, oldest, and most instructive example of how ideas interact — with each other and with the culture they serve — and how they thereby coevolve, "growing" civilization. I delve into this in First Trinity. That essay examines "Laws of Form" and the coevolution of ontology, epistemology, and teleology, which (among its first fruits) "called forth" the Nomos, the "good art" of law, and isonomia: equality under that goodness.