Philosophy of Law The Fundamentals [Hardcover]

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• Enlivened with numerous, everyday examples to illustrate various concepts of law.
  
• Employs the idea of three central commonplaces about law - that law is a social matter, that law is authoritative, and that law is for the common good - to organize seemingly disparate topics and to bring rival views into contention with each other.
  
• The first volume in the Fundamentals of Philosophy series, in which leading philosophers explore the fundamental issues and core problems in the major sub-disciplines of philosophy.

Introduction.

0.1 Philosophy, the Familiar, and the Unfamiliar.

0.2 What Are Our Commonplaces About Law?.

0.3 The Course of Our Inquiry.

For Further Reading.

Chapter 1: Analytical Fundamentals: The Concept of Law.

1.1 The Question, and its Importance.

1.2 Basic Austinianism.

1.3 Positivist Lessons.

1.4 Hartian Positivism.

1.5 Interlude: Hard and Soft Positivisms.

1.6 Natural Law Theory.

1.7 Fuller’s Procedural Natural Law Theory.

1.8 Aquinas’s Substantive Natural Law Theory.

1.9 A Suggested Resolution.

Appendix: Why is it Called “Natural Law Theory”?.

For Further Reading.

Chapter 2: Normative Fundamentló0