Preface to Morals

After an eloquent and moving analysis of what he sees as the disillusion of themodern age, Lippmann posits as the central dilemma of liberalism its inability to find an appropriate substitute for the older forms of authority - church, state, class, family, law, custom - that it has denied

List of contents

I: The Law; Nomostatics; I: The Concept of Law; II: The Sanction; III: The Delict; IV: The Legal Duty; V: The Legal Responsibility; VI: The Legal Right; VII: Competence (Legal Capacity); VIII: Imputation (Imputability); IX: The Legal Person; Nomodynamics; X: The Legal Order; XI: The Hierarchy of the Norms; XII: Normative and Sociological Jurisprudence; II: The State; 13: The Law and the State; II: The Elements of The State; III: The Separation of Powers; IV: Forms of Government: Democracy and Autocracy; V: Forms of Organization: Centralization and Decentralization; VI: National and International Law

About the author

Bernard J. Paris

Summary

After an eloquent and moving analysis of what he sees as the disillusion of themodern age, Lippmann posits as the central dilemma of liberalism its inability to find an appropriate substitute for the older forms of authority - church, state, class, family, law, custom - that it has denied

Product details

• Authors: Walter Lippmann, Lippmann Walter, Bernard J Paris, Bernard J. Paris
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.07.2017
• EAN: 9781138518469
• ISBN: 978-1-138-51846-9
• No. of pages: 375
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy