Law and Life in Common

Informationen zum Autor Timothy Macklem is Professor of Jurisprudence at King's College London, Dean Emeritus of the Law School there, and Honorary Bencher, Inner Temple. He is the author of Independence of Mind (OUP, 2006) and Beyond Comparison: Sex and Discrimination (CUP, 2003). He is currently working on questions of equality and of consent. Klappentext How can law help build community? Don't people typically have good reason to pursue their own courses at the cost of life in common? This book goes beyond the familiar debates in jurisprudence, exploring the ways in which the rational appeal of law requires the support of other means of persuasion, most obviously enforcement, but also beguilement. Zusammenfassung How can law help build community? Don't people typically have good reason to pursue their own courses at the cost of life in common? This book goes beyond the familiar debates in jurisprudence, exploring the ways in which the rational appeal of law requires the support of other means of persuasion, most obviously enforcement, but also beguilement. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: The Problem of Law 2: Decision, For One and For the Many 3: The Exaltation of the Will 4: The Genius of the Place 5: The Service Law May Offer to Life in Common 6: Appreciating the Limits of the Service Conception of Authority 7: Ideas of Easy Virtue: Descriptions and Evaluation 8: Law and Life in Common

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• Authors: Macklem, Timothy Macklem, Timothy (Professor of Jurisprudence Macklem, Macklem Timothy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2015
• EAN: 9780198735816
• ISBN: 978-0-19-873581-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; LAW / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law