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Post positivism /

Post-positivism presents a materialist, holist, monist, cognitivist theory of law and justice. It argues that positivism and natural law are complementary, not conflicting, and that normative inference (is-to-ought) can be a valid form of logical reasoning. These are two key breaks from 20th Century...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Engle, Eric
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Alemán
Publicado: Berlin : Duncker & Humblot, ©2014.
Colección:Schriften zur Rechtstheorie ; Heft 270.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Preface; Table of Contents; Chapter 1: Method: Ontology, Epistemology, Axiology; A. Introduction; B. Ontology: Materialism v. Philosophical Idealism; C. Epistemology: Realism v. Atomism; I. Atomism; II. Critique of Atomism and, by Extension, (International Relations) Realism; III. Holism; IV. Critiques of Holism; V. Is it Possible to Synthesize Holist and Atomist Methods?; D. Axiology: Relativism (Post-modernism and Neo-liberals) v. Cognitivism (Classical Liberals); E.A New Natural Law Theory of International Relations; F. Conclusion; Chapter 2: Legal Theory in Antiquity: Aristotle.
  • A. IntroductionB. Aristotle's Contributions to Legal Science; I. Logic and Dialectical Reasoning; II. Tort Law: Causality is Rooted in Aristotle's Thought; C. Aristotle and Justice; I. Political Justice
  • A Relation; 1. Elements and Origins of the Polis; a) The Family; b) The Individual: Dependency; 2. Inequality; a) The Condition of Slaves; b) The Condition of Women; 3. Rationality; 4. State of Nature?; 5. The Ends of the Polis; a) The Good; b) Autarchy; II. Typology of Justice According to Aristotle; 1. The Just Man, Justice, and Just Acts; a) The Just Man; b) Universal Justice (the Lawful).
  • C) Just Acts: Justice in the Particular (Fairness)2. Distributive Justice (""Geometric"" Justice); 3. Corrective Justice (arithmetic justice); III. Critique of the Aristotelian Theory of Justice; 1. What are the Sources of Inequality?; 2. What are the Consequences of Inequality?; a) Limitation of the Development of Individuals; b) Limitation of the Development of the Polis; c) Economic Inequality; IV. Global Elements of Justice: Volition and Equity; 1. The Relation between Volition and Culpability: Aristotle's Influence on the Concept of Culpability in the Common Law; 2. Equity.
  • D. Criticisms of AristotleE. Aristotle and Foucault; F. Conclusion; Chapter 3: Pre Modern Theory: Medieval Scholasticism and the Universals (1400-1600) ; A. Introduction; B. Problématique; C. History: From Realism to Nominalism by Way of the Universals; I. The Scholastics; 1. External Contradictions; 2. Internal Contradictions; II. The Universals; 1. Verum; a) Truth Scepticism: Nietzsche
  • The Will to Truth; b) Moral Relativism: Freud and Psychological Interpretation; c) The American Realists; aa) Fact Sceptics; bb) Rules Sceptics; 2. Bonum; 3. Unum; D. Logic: Indeterminacy and Decidability.
  • I. GödelII. Quine; 1. Linguistic Indeterminacy; 2. Paradox; a) Definition of Paradox; b) Self Reference; c) Paradoxes of the State; d) The Paradox of Omnipotence and Self-limitation; e) Paradox of Universal Truth; III. Raz and the Paradox of Authority; IV. Kelsen and the Paradox of the Prescription of Prescription; V. Juridical Functions as Determining Legal Knowledge; 1. The Maintenance of Order; 2. Prediction; E. Conclusion: The Temporary Victory of Relativism; I. Volontarism; II. Relativism; Chapter 4: Into Modernity: Natural Law and Normative Inference.