The Justification of the Law / Clarence Morris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, Clarence, Author.

Series:

Anniversary Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Justice.

Law--Philosophy.

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2016

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Clarence Morris argues that the more the law implements the public's genuine and important aspirations--not its desires for individual gratification but the social, deep-seated unselfish, nonexploitable aspirations--the more just the legal system becomes.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Introductory Schema

Chapter 1. Law, Justice, and the Public's Aspirations

Chapter 2. The Austerity of the True and the Sociality of the Just

Chapter 3. On Liberation and Liberty: Marcuse's and Mill's Essays Compared

Chapter 4. Law and Logic

Chapter 5. Enacted Law: Eighteenth-Century Hopes and Twentieth-Century Accomplishments

Chapter 6. Law, Reason, and Sociology

Chapter 7. The Board of Punishments' Interpretation of the Chinese Imperial Code

Chapter 8. The Rights and Duties of Beasts and Trees

Notes

Notes:

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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781512804638

1512804630

OCLC:

979905829