03959nam 22007091 450 991081616530332120240313201349.03-11-032456-310.1515/9783110324563(CKB)2670000000432749(EBL)1174146(OCoLC)858761577(SSID)ssj0001002629(PQKBManifestationID)11640226(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001002629(PQKBWorkID)10997472(PQKB)11166323(MiAaPQ)EBC1174146(DE-B1597)211251(OCoLC)881296334(DE-B1597)9783110324563(Au-PeEL)EBL1174146(CaPaEBR)ebr10785921(CaONFJC)MIL806331(EXLCZ)99267000000043274920130610h20132013 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrWhy the law matters to you citizenship, agency, and public identity /Christoph Hanisch1st ed.Berlin :De Gruyter,[2013]©20131 online resource (276 p.)Practical philosophy ;volume 16Description based upon print version of record.3-11-032395-8 Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-267) and index.Front matter --Contents --Introduction --Part 1: A Challenge for Citizenship --Chapter 1: Kukathas's Challenge to Contemporary Liberalism --Chapter 2: The Liberal State and Liberal Citizens --Chapter 3: Initial Ad Hominem Reply to Kukathas --Part 2: Public Identity and Self-Constituting Action --Chapter 4: Korsgaard's Two Arguments --Chapter 5: Public Actions and Public Identities --Chapter 6: Clarification and Objections --Part 3: Self-Constituting Action and the Law --Chapter 7: Action and the Law --Chapter 8: The Nature of Law Revisited --Chapter 9: Reply to Kukathas --Conclusion --ReferencesThis book presents an answer to the question of why modern legal institutions and the idea of citizenship are important for leading a free life. The majority of views in political and legal philosophy regard the law merely as a useful instrument, employed to render our lives more secure and to enable us to engage in cooperate activities more efficiently. The view developed here defends a non-instrumentalist alternative of why the law matters. It identifies the law as a constitutive feature of our identities as citizens of modern states. The constitutivist argument rests on the (Kantian) assumption that a person's practical identity (its normative self-conception as an agent) is the result of its actions. The law co-constitutes these identities because it maintains the external conditions that are necessary for the actions performed under its authority. Modern legal institutions provide these external prerequisites for achieving a high degree of individual self-constitution and freedom. Only public principles can establish our status as individuals who pursue their life plans and actions as a matter of right and not because others contingently happen to let us do so. The book thereby provides resources for a reply to anarchist challenges to the necessity of legal ordering.Practical philosophy ;Bd. 16.CitizenshipEffectiveness and validity of lawLawPhilosophyIdentity.Legality.Modern State.Citizenship.Effectiveness and validity of law.LawPhilosophy.340/.1340.1Hanisch Christoph1676121MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816165303321Why the law matters to you4042097UNINA