On Rules /
Justice is simultaneously a practical and an ideal concept: when we think of justice, we refer to its day-to-day administration, involving police, lawyers, judges, and politicians-but we also refer to a larger ideal, a set of basic values that guide our attempts to live together and balance competin...
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Idioma: | Inglés Italiano |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2015]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Introduction: Gherardo Colombo's Concern for the Democratic State under the Rule of Law: A Work in Progress / Foqué, René
- 1. An Imaginary Country
- Contents
- Part I. The Ambiguities of Justice
- 2. Law and Justice
- 3. Laws Differing in Time and Space
- 4. 'Justice' is an Ambiguous Word
- 5. Law Comes From God
- 6. Law is Just If It is 'Natural'
- 7. Law is Just When It Exists
- 8. From Subject to Citizen
- Part II. Horizontal Society and Vertical Society
- 9. The Vertical Society
- 10. The Horizontal Society
- 11. Structure of the Two Models
- 12. Consequences of the Vertical Society
- 13. Consequences of the Horizontal Society
- 14. Fundamental Rights According to the Two Models
- 15. Sanctions According to the Vertical Model
- 16. The Consequences to Offences in the Horizontal Society
- 17. Victim and Offender
- 18. Limits to Personal Liberty
- 19. Vertical Society, Horizontal Society, Ideology and Religion
- Part III. Towards a Horizontal Society
- 20. An Attempt to Justify Law at the End of the Second Millennium
- 21. The Limits of International Rules
- 22. An Attempt at Creating a Horizontal Society: the Italian Constitution
- 23. The Person Comes First
- 24. What is Missing?
- 25. Uncertainties in the Constitutional Process
- 26. Culture
- 27. The Interests of Those Who Oppose the Horizontal Society
- 28. Security
- 29. Escaping Responsibility
- Part IV. How Do We Get There?
- 30. The Time Dynamic
- 31. Self-Awareness
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments