Ngaire Naffine
Law's Meaning of Life: Philosophy, Religion, Darwin and the Legal Person
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The perennial question posed by the philosophically-inclined lawyer is What is law? or perhaps What is the nature of law? This book poses an associated (but no less fundamental) question about law which has received much less attention in the legal literature. This question is: Who is law for? Whenever people go to law, they are judged for their suitability as legal persons. They are given or refused rights and duties on the basis of ideas about who matters. These ideas are basic to legal-decision making. They form the intellectual and moral underpinning of legal thought. They help to determine whether law is essentially for rational human be…
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The perennial question posed by the philosophically-inclined lawyer is What is law? or perhaps What is the nature of law? This book poses an associated (but no less fundamental) question about law which has received much less attention in the legal literature. This question is: Who is law for? Whenever people go to law, they are judged for their suitability as legal persons. They are given or refused rights and duties on the basis of ideas about who matters. These ideas are basic to legal-decision making. They form the intellectual and moral underpinning of legal thought. They help to determine whether law is essentially for rational human beings, or whether it also speaks to and for human infants, adults with impaired reasoning, the comatose, fetuses, and even animals. Are these the right kind of beings to enter legal relationships and so become legal persons? Are they considered sufficiently rational, sacred, or simply human? Is law meant for them? This book reveals and evaluat
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Weitere Autoren: Gardner, John (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-84113-866-4
- EAN: 9781841138664
- Produktnummer: 35319929
- Verlag: Hart Pub
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 206 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.2 cm 322 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 322
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