Value and Circumstance - Justice, Consent, Equality, and Law

Value and Circumstance revisits the most prominent political and moral ideals of the twentieth century: justice, consent, equality, and law. It asks what they tell us about the connections between the ideal and the everyday, between enduring moral values and the fragile contingencies of time and place.

List of contents

• 1: The Price We Pay for Justice


• 2: Consent and Its Absence


• 3: The Goodness of Equality


• 4: The Ideal and the Everyday

About the author

Timothy Macklem is Professor of Law and Philosophy at Queen Mary University of London and Professor Emeritus at King's College London. He began his research career under the supervision of Joseph Raz and in the company of John Gardner, with whom he shared a life-long sense of philosophical mission and wrote numerous papers. For several years before that, he practised constitutional law in Ontario and has been an Academic Bencher at Inner Temple for the past dozen years. He is the author of Beyond Comparison (CUP 2003), Independence of Mind (OUP 2007) and Law and Life in Common (OUP 2015).

Summary

Value and Circumstance revisits the most prominent political and moral ideals of the twentieth century: justice, consent, equality, and law. It asks what they tell us about the connections between the ideal and the everyday, between enduring moral values and the fragile contingencies of time and place.

Product details

• Authors: Timothy Macklem, Timothy (Professor of Law and Philosophy Macklem, Macklem Timothy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.01.2025
• EAN: 9780198948575
• ISBN: 978-0-19-894857-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Oxford Legal Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, LAW / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law