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Architectures of Justice : Legal Theory and the Idea of Institutional Design.
Title:
Architectures of Justice : Legal Theory and the Idea of Institutional Design.
Author:
Olsen, Henrik Palmer.
ISBN:
9780754686187
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (227 pages)
Series:
Applied Legal Philosophy
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Fuller, Gewirth and the Idea of Eunomics -- The Architecture of Justice -- The Story So Far -- Gewirth's Argument to the PGC -- The Integration of Ethical and Legal Theory -- Objectivity and Perfectionism -- Idealism or Pragmatism? Objections to the 'Foundational' Argument -- 1 The Methodology of Eunomics -- Part 1: Explanation, Critique and Human Interests -- Social Norms and Legal Norms -- Incommensurabilism, Pragmatism and Proceduralism -- Selznick, Fuller and Pragmatism -- 'Variability' -- 'Normative Theory' -- 'Baseline and Flourishing' Criteria -- 'Weak Definitions/Strong Theories' -- Why Does Pragmatism Reject Foundationalism? -- Part 2: Pragmatism and the 'Incommensurability of Values' -- Incommensurability and Natural Law? -- Goods, Rights, Values and Principles -- Incommensurability and Moral 'Dilemmas' -- Shaun Pattinson: Extrapolating From Basic Principles -- Principle, Procedure and Authority -- On the Incommensurability of Systemic Rules -- Part 3: Fuller's Proceduralism and the Morality of Law -- 2 Means, Ends and the Idea of Freedom -- Negative and Affirmative Freedom -- Institutional Design: Means, Ends and the Concept of Freedom -- The Metaphor of Architecture -- Means, Ends and Sociological Method -- Freedom and the Source of the Legal Impulse -- Fuller, Gewirth and the Idea of Effective Agency -- 3 The Politics of Affirmative Freedom -- Hume and Mill on the Social Contract -- 'Of the Original Contract' -- J.S. Mill's 'Critique' of the Social Contract -- Liberalism: Individual Freedom and Public Authority -- (i) The Abstracted Self -- (ii) Arbitrariness of Ends -- Thinking About Institutional Design -- Affirmative Freedom and Human Nature -- Towards a Synthesis -- The Complexity of Eunomic Freedom.

4 Natural Law, Sovereignty and Institutional Design -- Constitutionalism and the Locus of Sovereignty -- The Persistence of the Hobbesian Objection -- The Power to Interpret the Laws -- The Prudential, the Moral and the Legal -- A Continuum of Practical Reason -- The Discontinuity Thesis -- Kant's Concept of Obligation -- Eunomics and Civil Society -- Civil Society or 'Civil Society Talk' -- Civil Association and the PGC -- 5 Why 'Pluralism' Fails a Pluralist Society -- From Universalism to Multiculturalism -- Equality and Inclusiveness -- A Brief History of Pluralism -- Carl Schmitt's Analysis of Pluralism -- Beyond Schmitt and the Pluralists -- From Pluralism to Multiculturalism -- 'Descriptive' and 'Critical' Conceptions of the Pluralist Condition -- Multiculturalism and the Case of the Hijab -- The Wider Lesson of the Hijab -- The Reflexive Fallacy in Multicultural Critique -- Pluralism and Eunomic Design -- 6 Obsolescent Freedoms -- Religion and Human Rights -- Origins of the Freedom of Religion -- The Character of Religion -- The Right to Freedom of Religion and its Absorption into Other Rights -- Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Association and Assembly -- Freedom of Religion and the Prohibition Against Discrimination on the Ground of Religion -- Rituals and Rites -- The Right to Observe Religious Rituals -- Freedom of Religion: Conviction and Action -- Arguing Against the Special Status of Religious Belief -- Evans:Toleration and Peace -- Ahdar and Leigh: Liberal Justifications for Special Protection -- Ahdar and Leigh: The 'Duty vs. Preference' Argument -- Stephen D. Smith: 'Democratic Civic Virtue' -- Epilogue: Equality, Diversity and Limits to Social Freedom -- Author Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G.

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Abstract:
Law can be seen to consist not only of rules and decisions, but also of a framework of institutions providing a structure that forms the conditions of its workable existence and acceptance. In this book Olsen and Toddington conduct a philosophical exploration and critique of these conditions: what they are and how they shape our understanding of what constitutes a legal system and the role of justice within it.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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