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Subject(s)

• Legal positivism [Browse]
• Law—Philosophy [Browse]
• Law—Moral and ethical aspects [Browse]

Series

Applied legal philosophy. [More in this series]

Summary note

"This book seeks to illuminate the idea of legality by a consideration of its moral nature. In doing so, it consciously departs from many of the tendencies and working assumptions that define modern legal philosophy."--BOOK JACKET.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Reflection on law's nature
• Reason, will and law
• Doctrinal scholarship and the science of right
• Legal positivism, doctrinal science and statist conceptions of law
• The changing face of positivism : from Hobbes to Hart
• The limits of legal positivism
• Beyond positivism and idealism
• Liberal politics and private law
• The moral nature of law.

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ISBN

• 9780754623991 (alk. paper)
• 0754623998 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007009760

OCLC

85830804

RCP

H - S

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