Law Politics And Morality

Author : Michael Walzer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400827206

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Law, Politics, and Morality in Judaism by Michael Walzer Pdf

Jewish legal and political thought developed in conditions of exile, where Jews had neither a state of their own nor citizenship in any other. What use, then, can this body of thought be today to Jews living in Israel or as emancipated citizens in secular democratic states? Can a culture of exile be adapted to help Jews find ways of being at home politically today? These questions are central in Law, Politics, and Morality in Judaism, a collection of essays by contemporary political theorists, philosophers, and lawyers. How does Jewish law accommodate--or fail to accommodate--the practice of democratic citizenship? What range of religious toleration and pluralism is compatible with traditional Judaism? What forms of coexistence between Jews and non-Jews are required by shared citizenship? How should Jews operating within halakha (Jewish law) and Jewish history judge the use of force by modern states? The authors assembled here by prominent political theorist Michael Walzer come from different points on the religious-secular spectrum, and they differ greatly in their answers to such questions. But they all enact the relationship at issue since their answers, while based on critical Jewish texts, also reflect their commitments as democratic citizens. The contributors are Michael Walzer, David Biale, the late Robert M. Cover, Menachem Fisch, Geoffrey B. Levey, David Novak, Aviezer Ravitzky, Adam B. Seligman, Suzanne Last Stone, and Noam J. Zohar.

Author : Michael J. Perry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1990-05-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780195362398

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Morality, Politics, and Law by Michael J. Perry Pdf

Addressing the proper relation of moral and religious belief to politics and law, especially constitutional law, Perry here discusses whether a common moral foundation exists that is capable of providing, in a diverse social system like ours, consistent guidelines for handling divisive political, policy, religious and constitutional disputes. His study represents a distinctive position in the vast and growing literature on the moral foundations of liberal political and legal life.

Author : Thomas Aquinas,Richard J. Regan,William P. Baumgarth
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0872206637

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On Law, Morality, and Politics (Second Edition) by Thomas Aquinas,Richard J. Regan,William P. Baumgarth Pdf

The second edition retains the selection of texts presented in the first edition but offers them in new translations by Richard J Regan -- including that of his Aquinas, Treatise on Law (Hackett, 2000). A revised Introduction and glossary, an updated select bibliography, and the inclusion of summarising headnotes for each of the units -- Conscience, Law, Justice, Property, War and Killing, Obedience and Rebellion, and Practical Wisdom and Statecraft -- further enhance its usefulness.

Author : Kent Greenawalt
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780195058246

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Conflicts of Law and Morality by Kent Greenawalt Pdf

Powerful emotion and pursuit of self-interest have many times led people to break the law with the belief that they are doing so with sound moral reasons. This study is a comprehensive philosophical and legal analysis of the gray area in which the foundations of law and morality clash. In examining the extent of the obligations owed by citizens to their government, Greenawalt concentrates on the possible existence of a single source of obligation that reaches all citizens and all laws.

Author : Elena Loizidou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09
Category : Feminist theory
ISBN : 1845680634

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Judith Butler by Elena Loizidou Pdf

It is undisputed that Judith Butler is the philosopher who invited us to think and imagine the subject as the effect of gender processes and practices. Over the last twenty years critical legal scholarship engaged either overtly or covertly with the question of the legal subject. And in this book, Elena Loizidou takes up Judith Butler's work as a reading of how the legal subject is formed. The most dominant notion of the legal subject within critical legal studies is one that is primarily pre-political, a-historical and spirit. As Loizidou argues, however, Butler returns this notion of the legal subject to its materiality and its embodiment; challenging legal scholarship to re-think its understanding of the subject and of its effects.

Author : Ellen Frankel Paul,Jeffrey Paul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-02-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521542219

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Morality and Politics: Volume 21, Part 1 by Ellen Frankel Paul,Jeffrey Paul Pdf

Divisions abound as to whether politics should be held responsible to a higher moral standard or whether pragmatic considerations, or realpolitik, should prevail. The two poles are represented most conspicuously by Aristotle (for whom the proper aim of politics is moral virtue) and Machiavelli (whose prince exalted political pragmatism over morality). The fourteen contributions to this volume address perennial concerns in political and moral theory. They underscore the rekindled yearning of many to hold the political realm to a higher standard despite the skepticism of dissenters who question the likelihood, or even the desirability, of success.

Author : Jon Yorke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317017738

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The Right to Life and the Value of Life by Jon Yorke Pdf

This groundbreaking book is the first collection to investigate the law, political science and ethical perspectives collectively in relation to the right and value of life. Its contributions from international roster of scholars are organized around five themes: a theoretical positioning of life and death; War, armed conflict and detention; Death as punishment; Medical parameters for ending life; and medical policies for the preservation of life. In studying this issue in its contemporary contexts of "right" and "value," the volume fills the current scholarly lacuna in the general subject of the orientations of life. It presents a much-needed examination of key issues in a broad practical and theoretical context, and holds broad appeal for scholars, researchers, and students occupied with issues of war, armed conflict, the death penalty, and various contemporary medico-legal scenarios.

Author : David Traven
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108845007

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Law and Sentiment in International Politics by David Traven Pdf

Traven argues that universal moral beliefs and emotions shaped the evolution of international laws that protect civilians in war.

Author : David Dyzenhaus,Sophia Reibetanz Moreau,Arthur Ripstein
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1095 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780802094896

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Law and Morality by David Dyzenhaus,Sophia Reibetanz Moreau,Arthur Ripstein Pdf

Since its first publication in 1996, Law and Morality has filled a long-standing need for a contemporary Canadian textbook in the philosophy of law. Now in its third edition, this anthology has been thoroughly revised and updated, and includes new chapters on equality, judicial review, and terrorism and the rule of law. The volume begins with essays that explore general questions about morality and law, surveying the traditional literature on legal positivism and contemporary debates about the connection between law and morality. These essays explore the tensions between law as a protector of individual liberty and as a tool of democratic self-rule, and introduce debates about adjudication and the contribution of feminist approaches to the philosophy of law. New material on the Chinese Canadian head tax case is also featured. The second part of Law and Morality deals with philosophical questions as they apply to contemporary issues. Excerpts from judicial decisions as well as essays by practicing lawyers are included to provide theoretically informed legal analyses of the issues. Striking a balance between practical and more analytic, philosophical approaches, the volume's treatment of the philosophy of law as a branch of political philosophy enables students to understand law in its function as a social institution. Law and Morality has proved to be an essential text in both departments of philosophy and faculties of law and this latest edition brings the debates fully up to date, filling gaps in the previous editions and adding to the array of contemporary issues previously covered.

Author : S. Vannatta
Publisher : Springer
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137466839

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Conservatism and Pragmatism by S. Vannatta Pdf

Conservatism and Pragmatism illustrates the intersections between classical British Conservative thought and classical American Pragmatist philosophy with regard to methodology in politics, ethics, and law.

Author : Vladimir Soloviev
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300128376

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Politics, Law, and Morality by Vladimir Soloviev Pdf

Considered one of Russia’s greatest philosophers, Vladimir Soloviev (1853–1900) was also a theologian, historian, poet, and social and political critic. His works have emerged to enjoy renewed attention in post–Soviet Russia, and his concerns echo in contemporary discussions of politics, law, and morality. In this collection of Soloviev’s essays—many translated into English for the first time—the philosopher explores an array of social issues, from the death penalty to nationalism to women’s rights. Soloviev reacts against the tradition of European rationalist thought and seeks to synthesize religious philosophy, science, and ethics in the context of a universal Christianity. In these writings he reveals the centrality of human rights in his Christian worldview, not only as an abstract theory but also as an inspiration in everyday life. In a substantive introduction and copious annotations to the essays, Vladimir Wozniuk points out distinctive and often overlooked features of Soloviev’s works while illuminating his place within both the Russian and Western intellectual traditions.

Author : Amy Swiffen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136851681

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Law, Ethics and the Biopolitical by Amy Swiffen Pdf

Law, Ethics and the Biopolitical explores the idea that legal authority is no longer related to national sovereignty, but to the ‘moral’ attempt to nurture life. The book argues that whilst the relationship between law and ethics has long been a central concern in legal studies, it is now the relationship between law and life that is becoming crucial. The waning legitimacy of conventional conceptions of sovereignty is signalled the renewal of a version of natural law, evident in discourses of human rights, that de-emphasises the role of a divine law-giver in favour of an Aristotelian conception of the natural purpose of life and the ‘common good’. Synthesising elements of legal scholarship on sovereignty, theories of biopolitics and biopower, as well as recent developments in the domains of ethics, Amy Swiffen examines the invocation of ‘life’ as a foundation for legal authority. The book documents the connection between law, life and contemporary forms of biopolitical power by critically analysing the fundamental principles of the bioethical paradigm. Unique in its critical and cross-disciplinary approach, Law, Ethics and the Biopolitical will be of interest to students and teachers in the areas of law and society, law and literature, critical legal studies, social theory, bioethics, psychoanalysis, and biopolitics.

Author : Joseph Raz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:878986208

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Ethics in the public domain by Joseph Raz Pdf

Author : Dr Amanda Russell Beattie
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781409499572

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Justice and Morality by Dr Amanda Russell Beattie Pdf

Bridging the contending theories of natural law and international relations, this book proposes a 'relational ontology' as the basis for rethinking our approach to international politics. Amanda Beattie challenges both the conventional interpretation of natural law as necessarily and intractably theological, and the dominant conception of international relations as structurally distinct from the ends of human good, in order to recover the centrality of other-directed agency to the promotion of human development. Offering an important contribution to the study of international political thought, the book contains a number of challenging and controversial ideas which should provoke constructive debate within international relations theory, political theory, and philosophical ethics.

Author : Matthew H. Kramer,Claire Grant,Ben Colburn,Antony Hatzistavrou
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199542895

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The Legacy of H.L.A. Hart by Matthew H. Kramer,Claire Grant,Ben Colburn,Antony Hatzistavrou Pdf

This text brings together contributions from 18 of the world's foremost legal and political philosophers to examine the lasting influence of H.L.A. Hart. The essays explore the major subjects of Hart's work: general jurisprudence, criminal responsibility, rights, justice, causation and the foundations of liberalism.