Screen LibraryLaw's humility : enlarging the scope of jurisprudential disagreement /
"This book invites newcomers to analytical legal philosophy to reconsider the terms in which they are accustomed to describing and defending their jurisprudential allegiances. It argues that familiar taxonomic labels such as legal positivism, natural law theory and legal interpretivism are poor...
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Hart Publishing, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford, UK : |
| Publication Dates: | 2021. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Law and practical reason ; volume 11. |
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| Summary: |
"This book invites newcomers to analytical legal philosophy to reconsider the terms in which they are accustomed to describing and defending their jurisprudential allegiances. It argues that familiar taxonomic labels such as legal positivism, natural law theory and legal interpretivism are poor guides to the actual diversity of views on the nature and normativity of law, mainly because they fail to carve up the reality of jurisprudential disagreement at its joints. These joints, the author suggests, are elusive because the semantics of law systematically misplaces them. Their true nature resides in the metaontological and metanormative features that dictate or indicate the target of a theory's jurisprudential commitments. The book advocates a new vocabulary for articulating these commitments without eliminating the use of familiar criteria of division among competing theories of law. The resulting picture is a much broader platform of meaningful disagreement about the nature and grounds of legal truth and legal normativity. Albeit based on a factualist-cognitivist understanding of the sources and grounds of law, the book reserves ample room for the unconvinced. Those suspicious of the project of "ontologising" theoretical disagreements in law can avail themselves of the quietist or anti-metaphysical avenue that the book's alternative taxonomy also makes available. The humblest path to law's reality may not be metaphysically ambitious after all"-- |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 218 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [208]-213) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781509936502 1509936505 9781509945191 1509945199 |
| Index Number: | K230 |
| CLC: | D903 |
| Call Number: | D903/G539 |
| Contents: | From legalese to ontologese -- Relating legal propositions to legal facts -- Relating legal facts to legal propositions -- Two levels of disagreement about the metaphysics of law -- Resisting ordinary reasons imperialism -- The metric approach to legal normativity -- Two levels of disagreement about the normativity of law. |