Law As Symbolic Form

The book is the result of discussions held by the Group over two and half years. The Group was mandated to work towards determining how far the law is amenable to formal modeling, and in what ways computers might assist legal thinking and practice. It will help students and researchers from different backgrounds to focus on a common set of topics of increasing general interest.

Not only does it help make some of the best work available to an international audience, but it also encourages increased aware­ ness of, and interaction between, the two major traditions. The primary aim of the Law and Philosophy Library is to present some of the best original work on legal philosophy from both the Anglo-American and European traditions.

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Analysis of Dis/agreement thematises such yardsticks, in that it demonstrates the existence, content and factual significance of a relatively well-delimited set of proposition types and proposition patterns, with their accompanying tenability criteria and motivating interests. independently of law.

Giving Desert Its Due During the last half of the twentieth century, legal philosophy (or legal theory or jurisprudence) has grown significantly.

e. Both ethics and law are products of, spring forth from the formative or symbolic powers of man, and although, as any other symbolism, they might confront us as something objective, i.

They are separate domains for Cassirer, and both direct their claims differently on the individual.The conceptual analysis of law goes hand to hand with its genetic account.

e. In this book we describe the rule of law as the reign of persuasion rather than the reign of force, and democracy as the reign by persuasion rather than the reign by force. Both ethics and law are products of, spring forth from the formative or symbolic powers of man, and although, as any other symbolism, they might confront us as something objective, i.

Law as Symbolic Form.The conceptual analysis of law goes hand to hand with its genetic account.e. In this book we describe the rule of law as the reign of persuasion rather than the reign of force, and democracy as the reign by persuasion rather than the reign by force.