The Argument from Injustice - A Reply to Legal Positivism (Hardcover)

At the heart of this book is the age-old question of how law and morality are related. The legal positivist, insisting on the separation of the two, explicates the concept of law independently of morality. The author challenges this view, arguing that there are, first, conceptually necessary connections between law and morality and, second, normative reasons for including moral elements in the concept of law. While the conceptual argument alone is too limited to establish a sufficiently strong connection between law and morality, and the normative argument alone fails to address the nature of law, the two arguments together support a nonpositivistic concept of law, toppling legal positivism qua comprehensive theory of law.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2002
First published:	March 2003
Authors:	Robert Alexy
Translators:	Stanley L. Paulson • Bonnie L. Paulson
Dimensions:	224 x 144 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	160
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-825987-9
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Jurisprudence & philosophy of law Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
LSN:	0-19-825987-5
Barcode:	9780198259879

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