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From the bottom up : selected essays / Kent Greenawalt.
LIBRA K212 .G74 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greenawalt, Kent, 1936- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law--Methodology.
- Law.
- Law--Philosophy.
- Reasoning.
- Law (Philosophical concept).
- Physical Description:
- vi, 529 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- What are public reasons
- On religion and politics in liberal democracies
- Religion and public reasons: making laws and evaluating candidates
- How persuasive is natural law theory?
- Natural law and public reasons
- Hart's rule of recognition and the united states
- Too thin and too rich: distinguishing features of legal positivism
- Legal enforcement of morality
- Law and objectivity
- How empty is the idea of equality?
- Prescriptive equality: two steps forward
- From the bottom up
- Distinguishing justifications from excuses
- Promise, benefit, and need: ties that bind us to the law
- Punishment
- A vice of its virtues
- Clear and present danger and criminal speech
- Free speech justifications
- Insults and epithets: are they protected speech?
- Five questions about religion judges are afraid to ask
- Religious toleration and claims of conscience.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Greenawalt, Kent, 1936- From the bottom up.
- ISBN:
- 9780199756162
- 0199756163
- OCLC:
- 927166120
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