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Law's meaning of life : philosophy, religion, Darwin, and the legal person /

Whenever people go to law, they are judged for their suitability as legal persons. Are these the right kind of beings to enter legal relationships and so become legal persons? This book reveals the type of thinking that goes into such legal and metaphysical determinations about who should be capable...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Naffine, Ngaire
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2009.
Colección:Legal theory today.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The question : who is law for?
  • The debate : legalists v realists
  • Strictly legal persons
  • Loosening the strictures
  • Moral agents and responsibility
  • Persons of limited reason
  • Human and non-human animals : the implications of Darwin
  • Embodiment : humans as biological beings
  • The myths we live by.