Synopses & Reviews
The Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence is a comprehensive treatment of the issues in legal philosophy and general jurisprudence. This major reference work will consist of a Theoretical Part, 5 volumes, to be published in 2005, and a Historical Part, 6 volumes, scheduled to be published by the end of 2006. The work is aimed at jurists and at legal and practical philosophers. The theoretical part covers the main topics of contemporary debate. The historical volumes account for the development of legal thought from ancient Greek times through the twentieth century. Volume 1: The Law and the Right, a Reappraisal of the Reality that Ought to be by Enrico Pattaro This work brings out and recovers the normative dimension of law, called "the reality that ought to be", placing within this reality the idea of what is right. Part I reconstructs the current as well as the traditional civil-law conception of the reality that ought to be and raises some critical theoretical issues. Part II introduces some basic concepts on language and behaviour and presents a conception of norms as beliefs. Part III aims to find explanations for the idea of a reality that ought to be. Part IV consists of inquiries focussed on Homeric epic, the natural-law school, and the normativistic view of positive law. Volume 2: Foundations of Law by Huber Rottleuthner This volume focuses on legally external foundations of law by which the origin, the development and the functions of law are explained. Such external variables might be found in mythology, religion, in extra or intra human nature, in the economy, moral attitudes and beliefs, societal conditions, etc. Besides these "explanatory" foundations, which include restrictive conditions of law, foundations are also interpreted in the sense of basic legal concepts, of epistemological foundations or of a normative basis of law. Volume 3: Legal Institutions and the Sources of Law by Roger A. Shiner This volume investigates the sources of law and focuses on how legal sources actually function analytically within legal systems to create law. It examines how sources such as legislation, precedent custom, delegation, codes or constitutions directly generate validity for legal norms, or how these sources are authoritative for legal decision-making. The book considers the contextual or strictly institutional authority of law and emphasizes sources of law within the common law tradition. Volume 4: Scientia Juris, Legal Doctrine as Knowledge of Law and as a Source of Law by Aleksander Peczenik Legal doctrine has faced repeated criticism, not least from minimalist philosophers. The author proposes a "Copernican revolution" in the way of understanding the relation of legal theory to philosophy. Instead of attempting to make legal theory follow one of the notoriously controversial moral theories, we can try to adjust philosophy to legal theory. In the search for a philosophy adjusted to legal doctrine, cautious philosophical positions are preferred to daring ones. Volume 5: Legal Reasoning, A Cognitive Approach to the Law by Giovanni Sartor Legal Reasoning is an application of a broader human competence, practical cognition: the ability to process information in order to come to appropriate determinations. Thus we need to bring to bear on legal reasoning the various studies which address the phenomenon of practical cognition and we need to view the different aspects of legal thinking as elements of a unitary cognitive process.
Synopsis
This paperback edition of the first of the twelve volumes of A Treatises of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence, serves as an introduction to the first-ever multivolume treatment of all important issues in legal philosophy and general jurisprudence, consisting of a five-volume theoretical part and a six-volume historical part. The theoretical part covers the main topics of contemporary debate. The historical volumes trace the development of legal thought from ancient Greek times through the twentieth century. All volumes are edited by the renowned theorist Enrico Pattaro.
Synopsis
Volume 1: The Law and the Right, a Reappraisal of the Reality that Ought to beby Enrico Pattaro This work brings out and recovers the normative dimension of law, called "the reality that ought to be", placing within this reality the idea of what is right. Part I reconstructs the current as well as the traditional civil-law conception of the reality that ought to be and raises some critical theoretical issues. Part II introduces some basic concepts on language and behaviour and presents a conception of norms as beliefs. Part III aims to find explanations for the idea of a reality that ought to be. Part IV consists of inquiries focussed on Homeric epic, the natural-law school, and the normativistic view of positive law.
Synopsis
The first-ever multivolume treatment of issues in legal philosophy and general jurisprudence, this book brings out and recovers the normative dimension of law, called 'the reality that ought to be', placing within this reality the idea of what is right.
Synopsis
Volume 1: The Law and the Right, a Reappraisal of the Reality that Ought to beby Enrico Pattaro This work brings out and recovers the normative dimension of law, called "the reality that ought to be", placing within this reality the idea of what is right. Part I reconstructs the current as well as the traditional civil-law conception of the reality that ought to be and raises some critical theoretical issues. Part II introduces some basic concepts on language and behaviour and presents a conception of norms as beliefs. Part III aims to find explanations for the idea of a reality that ought to be. Part IV consists of inquiries focussed on Homeric epic, the natural-law school, and the normativistic view of positive law.
About the Author
ENRICO PATTARO University of Bologna, Italy Born in Rome on April 8, 1941. Graduated summa cum laude in law from the University of Bologna, 1964, with a dissertation on Hans Kelsen and Alf Ross. Libero docente (Habilitationsschrift) in the philosophy of law, 1971. Was awarded a position as full professor in legal philosophy through a national 1975 competition for a professorship in Italy. Tenured professor in legal philosophy at the Bologna University School of Law. Served as dean of the Bologna University School of Law from 1977 to 1979, and then as member of the Bologna University Board of Directors from 1980 to 1989. Main research fields: Legal philosophy, general jurisprudence, the history of legal ideas, and computer science and law. Author of over two hundred publications. Main speaker at national and international conferences. Invited speaker at universities in Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the United States.
Table of Contents
A Note on the Author and the Contributors.- Editor's Preface.- Assistant Editor's Preface.- Part One - The Reality That Ought to Be: Problems and Critical Issues.- Chapter 1 - A First Glance.- Chapter 2 - Dualism and Interaction between the Reality That Ought to Be and the Reality That Is: Validity as a Pineal Gland.- Chapter 3 - Taking a Dive into the Sources of Law.- Chapter 4 - The Problem of the Matrix.- Part Two - The Reality That Ought to Be: A Monistic Perspective. Norms as Beliefs and as Motives of Behaviour.- Chapter 5 - The Motives of Human Behaviour.- Chapter 6 - Norms as Beliefs.- Chapter 7 - How Norms Proliferate in Human Brains.- Part Three - Family Portraits. Law as Interference in the Motives of Behaviour.- Chapter 8 - No Law without Norms.- Chapter 9 - But Norms Are Not Enough. The Interaction between Language and Motives of Behaviour.- Chapter 10 - The Law in Force: An Ambiguous Intertwining.- Chapter 11 - The Reality That Ought to Be as Fate.- Chapter 12 - What Is Right in Homeric Epic.- Chapter 13 - What Is Right, What Is Just, Ratio as Type: Sanctus Thoma Docet.- Chapter 14 - The Law and What Is Right. Hans Kelsen under Suspicion.- Chapter 15 - Nature and Culture.- Appendix - Elements for a Formalisation of the Theory of Norms Developed in This Volume (by Alberto Artosi, Antonino Rotolo, Giovanni Sartor, and Silvia Vida).- Bibliography (Compiled by Antonino Rotolo).- Index of Subjects.- Index of Names.