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"An attempt to give readers in one volume a speaking acquaintance with the great legal philosophers of the ages"--Preface
Author : Clarence Morris
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 28,33 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780812210088
"An attempt to give readers in one volume a speaking acquaintance with the great legal philosophers of the ages"--Preface
Author : James Bernard Murphy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 13,40 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0300138016
In this first book-length study of positive law, James Bernard Murphy rewrites central chapters in the history of jurisprudence by uncovering a fundamental continuity among four great legal philosophers: Plato, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Hobbes, and John Austin. In their theories of positive law, Murphy argues, these thinkers represent successive chapters in a single fascinating story. That story revolves around a fundamental ambiguity: is law positive because it is deliberately imposed (as opposed to customary law) or because it lacks moral necessity (as opposed to natural law)? These two senses of positive law are not coextensive yet the discourse of positive law oscillates unstably between them. What, then, is the relation between being deliberately imposed and lacking moral necessity? Murphy demonstrates how the discourse of positive law incorporates both normative and descriptive dimensions of law, and he discusses the relation of positive law not only to jurisprudence but also to the philosophy of language, ethics, theories of social order, and biblical law.
Author : Larry May
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 13,55 MB
Release : 2009-05-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1405183888
Philosophy of Law provides a rich overview of the diverse theoretical justifications for our legal rules, systems, and practices. Utilizes the work of both classical and contemporary philosophers to illuminate the relationship between law and morality Introduces students to the philosophical underpinnings of International Law and its increasing importance as we face globalization Features concrete examples in the form of cases significant to the evolution of law Contrasts Anglo-American law with foreign institutions and practices such as those in China, Japan, India, Ireland and Canada Incorporates diverse perspectives on the philosophy of law ranging from canonical material to feminist theory, critical theory, postmodernism, and critical race theory
Author : Clarence Morris
Publisher :
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 42,98 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : Raymond Wacks
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 30,45 MB
Release : 2014-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199687005
Raymond Wacks reveals the intriguing and challenging nature of legal philosophy, exploring the notion of law and its role in our lives. He refers to key thinkers from Aristotle to Rawls, from Bentham to Derrida and looks at the central questions behind legal theory, and law's relation to justice, morality, and democracy.
Author : Morris Raphael Cohen
Publisher : Beard Books
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 45,11 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : 1587981440
Author : Mark Tebbit
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 39,16 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : 0415334411
"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada."
Author : Gerald J. Postema
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 33,57 MB
Release : 2011-08-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9048189608
Volume 11, the sixth of the historical volumes of A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence, offers a fresh, philosophically engaged, critical interpretation of the main currents of jurisprudential thought in the English-speaking world of the 20th century. It tells the tale of two lectures and their legacies: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.’s “The Path of Law” (1897) and H.L.A. Hart’s Holmes Lecture, “Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals” (1958). Holmes’s radical challenge to late 19th century legal science gave birth to a rich variety of competing approaches to understanding law and legal reasoning from realism to economic jurisprudence to legal pragmatism, from recovery of key elements of common law jurisprudence and rule of law doctrine in the work of Llewellyn, Fuller and Hayek to root-and-branch attacks on the ideology of law by the Critical Legal Studies and Feminist movements. Hart, simultaneously building upon and transforming the undations of Austinian analytic jurisprudence laid in the early 20th century, introduced rigorous philosophical method to English-speaking jurisprudence and offered a reinterpretation of legal positivism which set the agenda for analytic legal philosophy to the end of the century and beyond. A wide-ranging debate over the role of moral principles in legal reasoning, sparked by Dworkin’s fundamental challenge to Hart’s theory, generated competing interpretations of and fundamental challenges to core doctrines of Hart’s positivism, including the nature and role of conventions at the foundations of law and the methodology of philosophical jurisprudence.
Author : Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart
Publisher :
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 16,83 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Jurisprudence
ISBN :
Author : Stephen Law
Publisher : Quercus
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 31,28 MB
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1623655560
Since the beginning of time mankind has struggled with the big questions surrounding our existence. Whilst most people have heard of Socrates, Machiavelli and Nietzsche, many are less clear on their theories and key concepts. In The Great Philosophers, bestselling author Stephen Law condenses and deciphers their fundamental ideas. Avoiding the technical jargon and complex logic associated with most books on philosophy, Law brings the thoughts of these great thinkers, from Confucius and Buddha to Wittgenstein and Sartre, to life.