Dimensions of Politics and English Jurisprudence

ISBN-13: 9780521196598 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 397 str.

Sean Coyle

Opis

Examines modern politics, justice and order in light of the historical, philosophical and theological forces which helped define them.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Jurisprudence: 1. Jurisprudence and the liberal order; 2. Concept and reality in jurisprudence; 3. On the 'Protestant' inheritance of juridical thought; 4. The form and direction of Anglo-American jurisprudence; 5. Three approaches to jurisprudence; Part II. Understanding the Present: 6. Authority and tradition: visions of law and politics; 7. Legalism and modernity I: identifying and understanding the problem; 8. Legalism and modernity II: reflections upon the problem; 9. Political thought and the 'well-ordered society'; 10. The limits of legal ideologies; 11. Conservatism and its dilemmas; 12. Liberal jurisprudence and its order; Part III. Justice: 13. Justice without mercy; 14. Justice and moral argument; 15. Fallen justice; 16. Freedom and justice in a democratic age.