Order and Life / by Joseph Needham

• Record Nr.: UNINA990001038790403321
• Autore: Needham, Joseph <1900- >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : The MIT Press, 1968
• Disciplina: 501
• Locazione: FI1
• Collocazione: 4-092
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Philosophy of law [[electronic resource] /] / Andrei Marmor

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910791594303321
• Autore: Marmor Andrei
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2011
• ISBN: 1-78268-950-8; 1-282-97648-6; 9786612976483; 1-4008-3870-3
• Edizione: [Core Textbook]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (181 p.)
• Collana: Princeton foundations of contemporary philosophy
• Disciplina: 340/.1
• Soggetti: Law - Philosophy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A pure theory of law? -- Social rules at the foundations of law -- Authority, conventions, and the normativity of law -- Is law determined by morality? -- Is legal philosophy normative? -- The language of law.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Philosophy of Law, Andrei Marmor provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary debates about the fundamental nature of ; law--an issue that has been at the heart of legal philosophy for centuries. What the law is seems to be a matter of fact, but this fact has normative significance: it tells people what they ought to do. Is the normative content of a law entirely determined by the facts that make it a law? Are there some normative moral constraints on what the law can be? And can we fully characterize and define the law without assuming a moral conception about what the law oug