Harmful thoughts: essays on law, self, and morality
- Tipus Tapa tova
- Editorial PRINCETON
- Autor/s Dan-Cohen, Meir
- ISBN13 9780691090078
- ISBN10 0691090076
- Pàgines 309
- Any Edició 2002
- Idioma Anglès
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Filosofía Política I Del DretHarmful thoughts: essays on law, self, and morality
Dan-Cohen looks first at the ubiquity of legal coercion and considers its decisive impact on the nature of legal discourse and communication, on law's normative aspirations and claim to obedience, and on the ideal of the rule of law. He moves on to discuss basic values, stressing the preeminence of individual identity and human dignity over the more traditional liberal preoccupations with preference-based choice and experiential harm. Dan-Cohen then focuses more directly on the normative ramifications of the socially constructed self. Fundamental concepts such as responsibility and ownership are reinterpreted to take account of the constitutive role that social practices--particularly law and morality--play in the formation of the self.
Throughout, Dan-Cohen draws on a uniquely productive mix of philosophical traditions and subjects, blending the methods of analytic philosophy with the concerns of Continental philosophers to reconceive the self and its relation to ethics and the law.
- Tipus Tapa tova
- Editorial PRINCETON
- Autor/s Dan-Cohen, Meir
- ISBN13 9780691090078
- ISBN10 0691090076
- Pàgines 309
- Any Edició 2002
- Idioma Anglès