The Faces Of Virtue In Law

Author : Amalia Amaya,Claudio Michelon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000029277

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The Faces of Virtue in Law by Amalia Amaya,Claudio Michelon Pdf

This book gathers together leading voices in virtue theory—an increasingly influential aspect of legal theory in the 21st century—to take stock of virtue jurisprudence’s evolution and suggest ways in which this approach can be further developed. The contributions address the three main axes along which virtue jurisprudence has unfolded in the past decades: the quest to provide a suitable virtue-based foundation for the law (in general) or for some aspects of it (in particular, but not exclusively, criminal law); the investigation of the role played by character traits in legal decision-making; and the investigation of how the law can be part of a virtuous life. As will become apparent for readers of this volume, those lines are converging and, as they do so, a general virtue-based approach to the study of law is starting to emerge. Crucial in addressing problems with legal experience for which the resources of traditional legal theory are insufficient, this book’s investigation of virtue theory and virtue jurisprudence will be of interest to all of those studying legal decision-making and the philosophy of law, as well as those studying virtue ethics more widely. It was originally published as a special issue of Jurisprudence.

Author : Cathleen Kaveny
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781589019331

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Law's Virtues by Cathleen Kaveny Pdf

Can the law promote moral values even in pluralistic societies such as the United States? Drawing upon important federal legislation such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, legal scholar and moral theologian Cathleen Kaveny argues that it can. In conversation with thinkers as diverse as Thomas Aquinas, Pope John Paul II, and Joseph Raz, she argues that the law rightly promotes the values of autonomy and solidarity. At the same time, she cautions that wise lawmakers will not enact mandates that are too far out of step with the lived moral values of the actual community. According to Kaveny, the law is best understood as a moral teacher encouraging people to act virtuously, rather than a police officer requiring them to do so. In Law’s Virtues Kaveny expertly applies this theoretical framework to the controversial moral-legal issues of abortion, genetics, and euthanasia. In addition, she proposes a moral analysis of the act of voting, in dialogue with the election guides issued by the US bishops. Moving beyond the culture wars, this bold and provocative volume proposes a vision of the relationship of law and morality that is realistic without being relativistic and optimistic without being utopian.

Author : Jan Klabbers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781009168489

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Virtue in Global Governance by Jan Klabbers Pdf

Virtue in Global Governance offers a framework and vocabulary for discussing the virtues in international affairs.

Author : C. Farrelly,L. Solum
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781349600731

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Virtue Jurisprudence by C. Farrelly,L. Solum Pdf

This book is the first authoritative text on virtue jurisprudence - the belief that the final end of law is not to maximize preference satisfaction or protect certain rights and privileges, but to promote human flourishing. Scholars of law, philosophy and politics illustrate here the value of the virtue ethics tradition to modern legal theory.

Author : Jiwei Ci
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 0674029569

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The Two Faces of Justice by Jiwei Ci Pdf

Justice is a human virtue that is at once unconditional and conditional. Under favorable circumstances, we can be motivated to act justly by the belief that we must live up to what justice requires, irrespective of whether we benefit from doing so. But our will to act justly is subject to conditions. We find it difficult to exercise the virtue of justice when others regularly fail to. Even if we appear to have overcome the difficulty, our reluctance often betrays itself in certain moral emotions. In this book, Jiwei Ci explores the dual nature of justice, in an attempt to make unitary sense of key features of justice reflected in its close relation to resentment, punishment, and forgiveness. Rather than pursue a search for normative principles, he probes the human psychology of justice to understand what motivates moral agents who seek to behave justly, and why their desire to be just is as precarious as it is uplifting. A wide-ranging treatment of enduring questions, The Two Faces of Justice can also be read as a remarkably discerning contribution to the Western discourse on justice re-launched in our time by John Rawls.

Author : Michael D. Matthews,Richard M. Lerner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1071 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781003851226

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The Routledge International Handbook of Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Character Development, Volume II by Michael D. Matthews,Richard M. Lerner Pdf

Drawing from philosophy, religion, biology, behavioral and social sciences, and the arts, The Routledge International Handbooks of Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Character Development, Volumes I and II, present cutting-edge scholarship about the concept of character across the life span, the developmental and contextual bases of character, and the key organizations of societal sectors, within and across nations, that promote character development in individuals, families, and communities. This second volume, Moderators, Threats, and Contexts, focuses on the moderators and covariates of character development with chapters pertaining to cultural- and contextual-based exemplars of character development; grit, achievement, and resilience; hope for the future; and parenting and self-regulation. With contributions from international experts, Volume II goes on to discuss threats to moral, positive, or virtuous character development, as well as the different contexts wherein the character is studied and promoted. Special attention is paid to the centers of excellence at universities around the world that specialize in character development research and character education. This comprehensive publication is an essential reference for researchers and graduate students in behavioral sciences, biology, philosophy, theology, and economics, as well as practitioners leading or evaluating character education or character development programs around the world. Find Volume I: Conceptualizing and Defining Character here: www.routledge.com/9781032169491

Author : Aurelian Craiutu
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812248760

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Faces of Moderation by Aurelian Craiutu Pdf

Examining the writings of twentieth-century thinkers such as Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin, Norberto Bobbio, Michael Oakeshott, and Adam Michnik, Faces of Moderation argues that moderation remains crucial for today's encounters with new forms of extremism.

Author : Sandrine Berges
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781847065926

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Plato on Virtue and the Law by Sandrine Berges Pdf

This important monograph examines Plato's contribution to virtue ethics and shows how his dialogues contain interesting and plausible insights into current philosophical concerns.

Author : Geoffrey D. Claussen,Alexander Green,Alan L. Mittleman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438493923

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Jewish Virtue Ethics by Geoffrey D. Claussen,Alexander Green,Alan L. Mittleman Pdf

What is good character? What are the traits of a good person? How should virtues be cultivated? How should vices be avoided? The history of Jewish literature is filled with reflection on questions of character and virtue such as these, reflecting a wide range of contexts and influences. Beginning with the Bible and culminating with twenty-first-century feminism and environmentalism, Jewish Virtue Ethics explores thirty-five influential Jewish approaches to character and virtue. Virtue ethics has been a burgeoning field of moral inquiry among academic philosophers in the postwar period. Although Jewish ethics has also flourished as an academic (and practical) field, attention to the role of virtue in Jewish thought has been underdeveloped. This volume seeks to illuminate its centrality not only for readers primarily interested in Jewish ethics but also for readers who take other approaches to virtue ethics, including within the Western virtue ethics tradition. The original essays written for this volume provide valuable sources for philosophical reflection.

Author : Amalia Amaya,Hock Lai Ho
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781782250333

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Law, Virtue and Justice by Amalia Amaya,Hock Lai Ho Pdf

This book explores the relevance of virtue theory to law from a variety of perspectives. The concept of virtue is central in both contemporary ethics and epistemology. In contrast, in law, there has not been a comparable trend toward explaining normativity on the model of virtue theory. In the last few years, however, there has been an increasing interest in virtue theory among legal scholars. 'Virtue jurisprudence' has emerged as a serious candidate for a theory of law and adjudication. Advocates of virtue jurisprudence put primary emphasis on aretaic concepts rather than on duties or consequences. Aretaic concepts are, on this view, crucial for explaining law and adjudication. This book is a collection of essays examining the role of virtue in general jurisprudence as well as in specific areas of the law. Part I puts together a number of papers discussing various philosophical aspects of an approach to law and adjudication based on the virtues. Part II discusses the relationship between law, virtue and character development, with some of the essays selected analysing this relationship by combining both eastern perspectives on virtue and character with western approaches. Parts III and IV examine problems of substantive areas of law, more specifically, criminal law and evidence law, from within a virtue-based framework. Last, Part V discusses the relevance of empathy to our understanding of justice and legal morality.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781425000868

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Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle Pdf

Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" is considered to be one of the most important treatises on ethics ever written. In an incredibly detailed study of virtue and vice in man, Aristotle examines one of the most central themes to man, the nature of goodness itself. In Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics," he asserts that virtue is essential to happiness and that man must live in accordance with the "doctrine of the mean" (the balance between excess and deficiency) to achieve such happiness.

Author : Amalia Amaya,Maksymilian Del Mar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509925155

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Virtue, Emotion and Imagination in Law and Legal Reasoning by Amalia Amaya,Maksymilian Del Mar Pdf

What is the role and value of virtue, emotion and imagination in law and legal reasoning? These new essays, by leading scholars of both law and philosophy, offer striking and exploratory answers to this neglected question. The collection takes a holistic approach, inquiring as to the connections and relations between virtue, emotion and imagination. In addition to the principal focus on adjudication, essays in the collection also engage with a variety of different legal, political and moral contexts: eg criminal law sentencing, the Black Lives Matter movement and professional ethics. A number of different areas of the law are addressed (eg criminal law, constitutional law and tort law) and the issues explored include: the benefits and limits of empathy in legal reasoning; the role of attention and perception in judicial reasoning;, the identification of judicial virtues (such as compassion and humility) and judicial vices (such as callousness and partiality); the values and dangers of certain imaginative devices (eg personification); and the interactive and social dimensions of virtue, emotion and imagination.

Author : William J. Bennett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1917 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781439126257

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The Book of Virtues by William J. Bennett Pdf

Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of good and bad, right and wrong. And the best places to find them are in great works of literature and exemplary stories from history. William J. Bennett has collected hundreds of stories in The Book of Virtues, an instructive and inspiring anthology that will help children understand and develop character -- and help adults teach them. From the Bible to American history, from Greek mythology to English poetry, from fairy tales to modern fiction, these stories are a rich mine of moral literacy, a reliable moral reference point that will help anchor our children and ourselves in our culture, our history, and our traditions -- the sources of the ideals by which we wish to live our lives. Complete with instructive introductions and notes, The Book of Virtues is a book the whole family can read and enjoy -- and learn from -- together.

Author : John Ogilvie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : HARVARD:HX5GBH

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The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language by John Ogilvie Pdf

Author : James W. St.G. Walker
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780889205666

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“Race,” Rights and the Law in the Supreme Court of Canada by James W. St.G. Walker Pdf

Four cases in which the legal issue was “race” — that of a Chinese restaurant owner who was fined for employing a white woman; a black man who was refused service in a bar; a Jew who wanted to buy a cottage but was prevented by the property owners’ association; and a Trinidadian of East Indian descent who was acceptable to the Canadian army but was rejected for immigration on grounds of “race” — drawn from the period between 1914 and 1955, are intimately examined to explore the role of the Supreme Court of Canada and the law in the racialization of Canadian society. With painstaking research into contemporary attitudes and practices, Walker demonstrates that Supreme Court Justices were expressing the prevailing “common sense” about “race” in their legal decisions. He shows that injustice on the grounds of “race” has been chronic in Canadian history, and that the law itself was once instrumental in creating these circumstances. The book concludes with a controversial discussion of current directions in Canadian law and their potential impact on Canada’s future as a multicultural society.