Philosophy of law
By: Andrei Marmor
Series: The Princeton series in the foundations of contemporary philosophy
Publisher: Princeton University Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780691141671
Description: "In Philosophy of Law, Andrei Marmor provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary debates about the fundamental nature of law--an issue that has been at the heart of legal philosophy for centuries. What the law is seems to be a matter of fact, but this fact has normative significance: it tells people what they ought to do. Is the normative content of a law entirely determined by the facts that make it a law? Are there some normative moral constraints on what the law can be? And can we fully characterize and define the law without assuming a moral conception about what the law ought to be? Finally, is the philosophy of law about describing what law is, or prescribing what it should be?" -- Publisher's information.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A pure theory of law?; title: Social rules at the foundations of law; title: Authority, conventions, and the normativity of law; title: Is law determined by morality?; title: Is legal philosophy normative?; title: The language of law.