What is Justice : justice, law, and politics in the mirror of science : collected essays / Hans Kelsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelsen, Hans, 1881-1973, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Philosophy.

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (397 pages)

Other Title:

What is Justice

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1960]

Summary:

Le site d'éditeur indique : "What is Justice? presents Kelsen's mature theory of natural law and his incisive commentary on Platonic, Aristotelian, and Judeo-Christian doctrines of justice. "You simply cannot get around this book if you want a real understanding of the fundamental ideas on which the great work of Kelsen is built. Reading this volume you may once more admire the transparent clarity of style and the merciless consistency of reasoning which are well known qualities of this author." --Alf Ross, 45 California Law Review 564 1957. Possibly the most influential jurisprudent of the twentieth century, HANS KELSEN [1881-1973] was legal adviser to Austria's last emperor and its first republican government, the founder and permanent advisor of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Austria, and the author of Austria's Constitution, which was enacted in 1920, abolished during the Anschluss, and restored in 1945. He was the author of more than forty books on law and legal philosophy. Active as a teacher in Europe and the United States, he was Dean of the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna and taught at the universities of Cologne and Prague, the Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Harvard, Wellesley, the University of California at Berkeley, and the Naval War College".

Contents:

What is justice?

The idea of justice in the Holy Scriptures

Platonic justice

Aristotle's doctrine of justice

The natural-law doctrine before the tribunal of science

A "dynamic" theory of natural law

Absolutism and relativism in philosophy and politics

Value judgments in the science of law

The law as a specific social technique

Why should the law be obeyed?

The pure theory of the law and analytical jurisprudence

Law, state, and justice in the pure theory of law

Causality and retribution

Causality and imputation

Science and politics.

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