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Law in its own right /
What, precisely, is the relationship between legality and morality? Does legal validity rest upon moral validity? Are legal obligations moral obligations? For some years now schools of jurisprudential Naturalism and Positivism have become increasingly ambiguous in their responses to these questions....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; Portland, Or. :
Hart Pub.,
1999.
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| Colección: | Legal theory today.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Half Title Page; Half Title verso; Title Page; Title verso; General Editor''s Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1. The State of Legal Theory Today; The Obligation to Obey; A Wider Theoretical Context; ''Autonomy'' and ''Artificiality''; Naturalism and Positivism; Methodological and Substantive Ambiguities; The Characterisation of Morality; Evaluation and Description; ''Morality'' or ''Democracy''?; Legal Validity and ''Legal Validity''; 2. The Good Sense of Legal Positivism; The ''Autonomy'' of Law; Morally Sensitive Legal Positivism; Problems Ahead; Legal Validity?
- ''Technical'' Legal Validity?3. Legal Theory in Sociological Terms; Terminology; The Case for the ''Ideal-type''; Conceptualising Society; Rethinking the Concept of ''Function''; Durkheim, Weber and Marx?; Functionalist Jurisprudence?; A Fresh Start?; Defending the Idea of ''Social Structure''; 4. Legal, Morality or ''The People''?; Weber, Schmitt and ''Disenchantment''; Constitutionalism in Pluralist Society; Constitutionalism and Democracy; Discretion, Democracy and the Rule of Law; 5. Law as a Social Contract; The IA Theory as a Social Contract; The Continuity of Practical Reason.
- 6. The Elements of ''Transparent Autonomy''Categories, Procedures and Rules; Formalistic Interpretation: Facts and Norms; Finnis: Legal Authority and Moral Incommensurability; Finnis and Dworkin; Attributes of a Theory of Authority and Interpretation; The Implausibility of Incommensurability; Commensurability and Coherence; Determinate Presuppostions of Agency; Validity and Obligation; Index.