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Autore: | Hanisch Christoph |
Titolo: | Why the law matters to you : citizenship, agency, and public identity / / Christoph Hanisch |
Pubblicazione: | Berlin : , : De Gruyter, , [2013] |
©2013 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
Disciplina: | 340/.1 |
Soggetto topico: | Citizenship |
Effectiveness and validity of law | |
Law - Philosophy | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-267) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 -- References |
Sommario/riassunto: | This 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Why the law matters to you |
ISBN: | 3-11-032456-3 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910462697903321 |
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