Many lawyers and legal scholars will be familiar with the notion that «the
test of the reasonable man [person] is the man... [more]
Many lawyers and legal scholars will be familiar with the notion that «the test of the reasonable man [person] is the man on the Clapham omnibus.»
[83] In my opinion the finding of driving without due care and attention in Provincial Court was akin to a finding of negligence against Mr. Weidmann, because his manner of driving was found to have departed from the
standard of a reasonable man and he failed to avoid liability by proving he took all reasonable care in the circumstances.
In contrast, the neo-Freudian Erich Fromm becomes quite unrealistically utopian in his hope for the «sane society»
of reasonable men, and he never asks where the individual can find in present history the community which can sustain the spirit which must live in this threatening and imperfect world.2