[PDF] Essays In Legal Theory eBook

Author : Robert Summers
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 28,38 MB
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9401594074

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The essays in this book treat important aspects of most of the major themes in contemporary philosophy of law and legal theory. All reveal the distinctive authenticity of the author's work, for he is not only a reputable legal theorist but an internationally known scholar of private law, and for many years chair of the Bielefelder Kreis, an international group of legal theorists who have jointly authored major works comparing methodologies of statutory interpretation and precedent.

Author : Tom Angier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 39,86 MB
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108586392

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In Section 1, I outline the history of natural law theory, covering Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and Aquinas. In Section 2, I explore two alternative traditions of natural law, and explain why these constitute rivals to the Aristotelian tradition. In Section 3, I go on to elaborate a via negativa along which natural law norms can be discovered. On this basis, I unpack what I call three 'experiments in being', each of which illustrates the cogency of this method. In Section 4, I investigate and rebut two seminal challenges to natural law methodology, namely, the fact/value distinction in metaethics and Darwinian evolutionary biology. In Section 5, I then outline and criticise the 'new' natural law theory, which is an attempt to revise natural law thought in light of the two challenges above. I conclude, in Section 6, with a summary and some reflections on the prospects for natural law theory.

Author : David Lyons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,35 MB
Release : 1993-01-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521438353

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In this volume, Professor Lyons outlines his fundamental views about the nature of law and its relation to morality and justice.

Author : Joel Feinberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 15,50 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 0195155262

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Collects articles, on what the author terms "basic questions" about the law, particularly in regard to the relationship to morality. This volume reflects the diverse nature of his own interests: scholars in philosophy of law, legal theory, and ethical and moral theory.

Author : Stephen R. Munzer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,5 MB
Release : 2001-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521640015

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This collection of essays examines central issues of property theory from a variety of perspectives.

Author : Robert P. George
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 36,98 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780198267904

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This collection of essays from legal philosophers offers an assessment of the nature and viability of legal positivism. It addresses questions such as: to what extent is the law adequately described as autonomous?; and should legal theorists maintain a conceptual separation of law and morality?.

Author : H. Kelsen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 45,12 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 940102653X

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In his choice of texts, the Editor has been faced with the difficult task of selecting, from among the author's more than 600 publications, those of the greatest philosophical interest. It is chiefly the topics of value-rela tivism and the logic of norms that have been kept in view. The selection has also been guided by the endeavour to reprint, so far as possible, texts which have not hitherto appeared in English. At times, however, this aim has had to be discarded, in order to include works of key im portance and also the latest expressions of Kelsen's view. In addition to the two topics already mentioned, the Editor has con sidered Kelsen's discussions of the causal principle to be so far worthy of philosophical attention, that some writings on causality and account ability have been included in this collection of philosophical studies. OTA WEINBERGER Hans Kelsen died on April 19th, 1973. Only his work now lives, for the inspiration of future generations of jurists and philosophers. Graz, 25th April, 1973 OT A WEINBERGER TRANSLATOR'S NOTE I am obliged to the Editor for his careful scrutiny of the translation, which has led to a number of corrections and improvements in the text.