| Description |
xv, 208 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Legal theory today |
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Legal theory today.
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| Contents |
1. The question: Who is law for? -- 2. The debate: legalists v. realists -- 3. Strictly legal persons -- 4. Loosening the strictures -- 5. Moral agents and responsibilities -- 6. Persons of limited reason -- 7. The divine spark: the principle of human sanctity -- 8. Human and non-human animals: the implications of Darwin -- 9. Embodiment: humans as biological beings -- 10. The myths we live by |
| Summary |
"This book reveals and evaluates the type of thinking that goes into fundamental legal and metaphysical determinations about who should be capable of bearing legal rights and duties. It identifies and analyses four influential ways of thinking about law's person, each with its own metaphysical suppositions. One approach derives from rationalist philosophy, a second from religion, a third from evolutionary biology while the fourth is strictly legalistic and so endeavours to eschew metaphysics altogether. The book offers a clear, coherent and critical account of these complex moral and intellectual processes entailed in the making of legal persons."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-193) and index |
| Subject |
Law -- Philosophy.
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| LC no. |
2009419334 |
| ISBN |
9781841138664 paperback |
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1841138665 paperback |
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