Aristotle's Legal Theory
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9781107157033
Subjects: Law
Description: "A selective reading of these statements can suggest a picture according to which law is strictly identifiable with reason. As a corrective to such a one-sided intellectualist reading, I seek to place the rationalism of Aristotelian nomos in its broader political context. This requires engagement with Aristotle's acknowledgment of the law's necessary use of force and constraint over resistant passions in its attempt to guide citizens towards a state of virtue or at least quasi-virtue"--