Central issues in jurisprudence : justice, laws, and rights /
Simmonds, N. E.(Nigel E.)
Includes bibliographic references and index.
Machine generated contents note: Doctrine and Theory -- The Centrality of Jurisprudence -- Introduction to Part 1 Justice -- Subjectivism -- Other Options -- Neutrality -- 1.Utilitarianism -- Why Be a Utilitarian? -- Liberalism, Utility and Moral Neutrality -- Uncertainty -- Consequences -- Utility and Distribution -- Act and Rule Utilitarianism -- Rule Utilitarianism as a Jurisprudential Theory -- Liberalism and Preferences -- Rights and Utility -- Selected reading -- 2.Rawls -- Introduction -- Reflective Equilibrium -- The Original Position -- The Basic Structure -- Criticism of Utilitarianism -- The Thin Theory of the Good -- Two Principles -- The Difference Principle -- Choosing the Difference Principle -- Greater Equality? -- The First Principle of Justice -- Political Liberalism -- Selected reading -- 3.Nozick -- An Arbitrary Starting Point? -- Comparison with Rawls -- Principles of Acquisition -- Pale Self-Ownership -- Patterned Distribution and Historical Entitlement --
Contents note continued: Markets and Equality -- Giving Content to Rights -- Selected reading -- 4.Finnis on Objective Goods -- Goods and Desires -- Objective Goods -- Goods and Human Nature -- Prudence and Morality -- Incommensurability of Goods -- The Common Good -- The Role of Choice -- Justice -- Basic Rights -- Law -- Selected reading -- Introduction to Part 2 Law -- Natural Law and Legal Positivism -- 5.Hart -- Legal Positivism -- What Positivists Do and Do Not Claim -- Normativity and Reductionism -- Rules and the Internal Point of View -- Powers and Secondary Rules -- The Legal System -- Adjudication -- Distinguishing Cases -- Legal Obligation and the Internal Point of View -- A Different Positivism? -- Rules and Formal Justice -- The Minimum Content of Natural Law -- The Nature of Conceptual Analysis -- Hart's Theory as Political Philosophy -- Legal Doctrine and Legal Theory -- Selected reading -- 6.Dworkin -- Rules and Principles -- Principles and Positivism --
Contents note continued: The Rule of Recognition and the Soundest Theory -- Constructive Interpretation -- Semantic Theories -- Some Scepticisms -- The "Threshold Objection" -- Choosing a Legal Theory -- Law as Integrity -- Order, Theory and Community -- Selected reading -- 7.Fuller -- The Story of Rex -- Facts, Values and Purposes -- Conceptual Structure -- Moral Purposes -- Wicked Regimes -- The Value of the Rule of Law -- Guidance by Rule and by Aspiration -- Principle and Change -- Selected reading -- pt. 3 Rights -- 8.The Analysis of Rights -- Some Fundamental Ideas -- Legal and Moral Rights -- Hard Atoms and Soft Molecules -- Rights as Complex and Peremptory -- A Slight Digression -- Hohfeld's Analysis -- Kantian and Hohfeldian Rights Compared -- Internal Complexity Restored? -- Is the Absence of a Duty a Right? -- Internal Complexity Without Peremptory Force? -- Rights Against Nobody? -- Rights Against Specific Persons -- Levels of Abstraction --
Contents note continued: Peremptory Force: Exclusionary or Conclusory? -- Exclusion Upon Exclusion -- One Set of Reasons; Two Perspectives -- Exclusion Abandoned -- The "Will" and "Interest" Theories -- MacCormick's Criticisms -- Selected reading.
Jurisprudence.