The Science of a Legislator
Subtitle: The Natural Jurisprudence of David Hume and Adam Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 28, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780521376259
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Jurisprudence & General Issues; Politics/International Relations; Philosophy Of Law; Political Science; Legal Reference / Law Profession; General; History & Theory - General; Political; Jurisprudence; Law-General; Philosophy / Political; Political Science / History & Theory; Political Science-History & Theory - General
First sentence: The aim of this book is threefold: firstly to argue that Adam Smith developed a number of suggestions from David Hume into a new and original answer to the perennial philosophical question of how legal criticism is possible; secondly, to show how the answer was the basis for Smith's system of natural jurisprudence and as such the core of his political thought; and thirdly, to give a systematic account of Smith's natural jurisprudence.