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Why the Law Matters to You - Citizenship, Agency, and Public Identity (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,563
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Why the Law Matters to You - Citizenship, Agency, and Public Identity (Hardcover): Christoph Hanisch

Why the Law Matters to You - Citizenship, Agency, and Public Identity (Hardcover)

Christoph Hanisch

Series: Practical Philosophy

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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.

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Imprint: De Gruyter
Country of origin: Germany
Series: Practical Philosophy
Release date: August 2013
First published: 2013
Authors: Christoph Hanisch
Dimensions: 230 x 155mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 978-3-11-032395-5
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > General
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > General
LSN: 3-11-032395-8
Barcode: 9783110323955

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