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9780521090902

On the History of the Idea of Law

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521090902

  • ISBN10:

    0521090903

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-11-27
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

On the History of the Idea of Law traces the development of the philosophical theory of law from its first appearance in Plato's writings to today. Shirley Letwin finds important and positive insights and tensions in the theories of Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Hobbes as well as confusion and serious errors introduced by Cicero, Aquinas, Bentham, and Marx. She harnesses the insights of H.L.A. Hart and especially Michael Oakeshott to mount a devastating attack on the late twentieth-century theories of Ronald Dworkin, the Critical Legal Studies movement, and feminist jurisprudence.

Table of Contents

Editor's preface
Introduction
Law Anchored to a Cosmic Order
Plato
Aristotle
Cicero
The Christian Revision
St Augustine
St Thomas Aquinas
The Modern Quest
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Immanuel Kent
Jeremy Bentham
The Significance of Rules
From historical jurisprudence to realism
The Defense of Rules
The Idea of Law Repudiated
Marxist Theories
Political jurisprudence 1
Political jurisprudence 2
New Foundations
A skeptical jurisprudence
Postscript
Index
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