Law, Reason, and Emotion
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781108420761
Subjects: Sociological jurisprudence; Law, philosophy; Emotions
Description: "This book will consider the relationship between law, reason, and emotion. Law, reason, and emotion have a long, close, and complicated connection in the history of philosophy and justice. This is nothing new. Cicero famously observed that "law is the highest reason, inherent in nature," which neatly captures the mutual dependency between emotions and the law"--