Law and the Limits of Reason - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Law and the Limits of Reason write by Adrian Vermeule. This book was released on 2012-05-24. Law and the Limits of Reason available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Law and the Limits of Reason asks "what are the consequences of recognizing the limits of reason within the legal system?" In particular, what are the consequences for the allocation of lawmaking authority among judges, legislators, and administrative agencies or executive officials? Vermeule examines the conditions under which the limits of reason support a greater or lesser allocation of authority to one institution or another.
Cicero on Politics and the Limits of Reason
Cicero on Politics and the Limits of Reason - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cicero on Politics and the Limits of Reason write by Jed W. Atkins. This book was released on 2013-10-17. Cicero on Politics and the Limits of Reason available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A prolific philosopher who also held Rome's highest political office, Cicero was uniquely qualified to write on political philosophy. In this book Professor Atkins provides a fresh interpretation of Cicero's central political dialogues - the Republic and Laws. Devoting careful attention to form as well as philosophy, Atkins argues that these dialogues together probe the limits of reason in political affairs and explore the resources available to the statesman given these limitations. He shows how Cicero appropriated and transformed Plato's thought to forge original and important works of political philosophy. The book demonstrates that Cicero's Republic and Laws are critical for understanding the history of the concepts of rights, the mixed constitution and natural law. It concludes by comparing Cicero's thought to the modern conservative tradition and argues that Cicero provides a perspective on utopia frequently absent from current philosophical treatments.
The Limits of Reason
The Limits of Reason - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Limits of Reason write by John A. Eisenberg. This book was released on 1992-01-01. The Limits of Reason available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through lucid theoretical analysis and his own extensive experience in these areas, he demonstrates that the outcomes of rationally conceived programs are usually at odds with the intended result. Eisenberg traces this failure to an intrinsic logical incompatibility between what reason tries to do and what it can do. Rational method is premised on the possibility of conceiving and correlating all operative factors in a given process. However, all such factors cannot be taken into account. Using a social variation of the "principle of indeterminancy," the author notes that reason cannot take itself into account any more than the eye can see itself seeing or the hand can grasp itself grasping. Similarly, reason cannot control how institutional structure affects social behavior, nor how legal language determines social reality. Eisenberg locates an intrinsic indeterminacy in society that precludes total or even substantial understanding and control of our destinies
On Law and Reason
On Law and Reason - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Law and Reason write by Aleksander Peczenik. This book was released on 2014-01-12. On Law and Reason available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'This is an outline of a coherence theory of law. Its basic ideas are: reasonable support and weighing of reasons. All the rest is commentary.’ These words at the beginning of the preface of this book perfectly indicate what On Law and Reason is about. It is a theory about the nature of the law which emphasises the role of reason in the law and which refuses to limit the role of reason to the application of deductive logic. In 1989, when the first edition of On Law and Reason appeared, this book was ground breaking for several reasons. It provided a rationalistic theory of the law in the language of analytic philosophy and based on a thorough understanding of the results, including technical ones, of analytic philosophy. That was not an obvious combination at the time of the book’s first appearance and still is not. The result is an analytical rigor that is usually associated with positivist theories of the law, combined with a philosophical position that is not natural law in a strict sense, but which shares with it the emphasis on the role of reason in determining what the law is. If only for this rare combination, On Law and Reason still deserves careful study. On Law and Reason also foreshadowed and influenced a development in the field of Legal Logic that would take place in the nineties of the 20th century, namely the development of non-monotonic (‘defeasible’) logics for the analysis of legal reasoning. In the new Introduction to this second edition, this aspect is explored in some more detail.
The Limits of Reason
The Limits of Reason - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Limits of Reason write by John A. Eisenberg. This book was released on 1992-01-01. The Limits of Reason available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
