Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
|
Buy Now
Why the Law Matters to You - Citizenship, Agency, and Public Identity (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R4,563
Discovery Miles 45 630
|
|
Why the Law Matters to You - Citizenship, Agency, and Public Identity (Hardcover)
Series: Practical Philosophy
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
This book presents an answer to the question of why modern legal
institutions and the idea of citizenship are important for leading
a free life. The majority of views in political and legal
philosophy regard the law merely as a useful instrument, employed
to render our lives more secure and to enable us to engage in
cooperate activities more efficiently. The view developed here
defends a non-instrumentalist alternative of why the law matters.
It identifies the law as a constitutive feature of our identities
as citizens of modern states. The constitutivist argument rests on
the (Kantian) assumption that a person's practical identity (its
normative self-conception as an agent) is the result of its
actions. The law co-constitutes these identities because it
maintains the external conditions that are necessary for the
actions performed under its authority. Modern legal institutions
provide these external prerequisites for achieving a high degree of
individual self-constitution and freedom. Only public principles
can establish our status as individuals who pursue their life plans
and actions as a matter of right and not because others
contingently happen to let us do so. The book thereby provides
resources for a reply to anarchist challenges to the necessity of
legal ordering.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.