Reason, Democracy, Society

A Treatise on the Basis of Legal Thinking
1. Auflage. Softcover version of original hardcover Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-90-481-4759-5
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 25, 246 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 394 g

Reihe: Law and Philosophy Library

Reason, Democracy, Society deals with basic points of legal theory and philosophy of law. The main contention of the book relates to the insufficiencies of the legal positivistic approach. Some of its claims are that we must sharply separate what the law is from, what the law ought to be, and that we can know what the law is without appealing to meta-legal considerations. These and other claims are criticized. The author shows that with the legal positivistic approach we cannot know, in all cases, what the law is, if that is equated to the rules posited by the legislator. He also challenges H.L.A. Hart's and MacCormick's points of view, amongst others, about the characteristic corner stones of legal positivism. Some other issues relate to human rights, legal rationality and efficiency and ethics. This book will be of interest to philosophers concerned with law or ethics, those concerned with justice in modern society and to jurists and law students.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Urbina, Sebastián

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Which Positivism?.- 2. Analysis and Ideology.- 3. On Legal Rationality.- 4. Legal Reasoning and Formal Criteria of Recognition.- 5. The Latest Buchanan; Efficiency and Ethics.- 6. Are Human Rights Universal?.- 7. Survival, Happiness, Ethics.- Notes.- 1.- 2.- 3.- 4.- 5.- 6.- 7.