Practical reason in law and morality
By: Neil MacCormick.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780198268772
Subjects: Law -- Moral and ethnical aspects; Law and ethics
Description: This text offers a clear account of the philosophy of practical reason in ethics and legal theory. It explains how reasons relate to actions, the nature of values and their relation to reasons, and the relation of morality to legal reasoning.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Incentives and reasons; title: Values and human nature; title: Right and wrong; title: Questions of trust; title: Autonomy and freedom; title: Obedience, freedom, and engagement or utility?; title: Society, property, and commerce; title: On justice; title: Using freedom well; title: Judging : legal cases and moral questions; title: Practical reason, law, and state.