Reasons, Respect, and the Law

Jurisprudence as Practical Philosophy
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5099-6885-5
Verlag: Hart Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Law and Practical Reason

This is a book about law and its impact on our practical reasoning.

Drawing from Bernard Williams, the book argues that our practical engagements with the law are complex and often obscure. It begins with a novel view on practical reason that is called open-minded reasons internalism. This is a view that emphasises how certain considerations can bear on action for concrete agents, and in doing so it is an explanatory account of reasons and actions. The account is receptive to the considerations that makes much of people's lives: the motivations and dispositions they have, the notions of character and identity, and respect.

The book claims that this account helps in making sense of much of the richness seen in real life in how concrete agents engage with the law. It provides the tools to explain when and why an agent identifies herself totally with the law, as Inspector Javert did in Les Misérables, but it can also explain the attitude of respect that many law-abiding citizens have, and even the merely prudential considerations of OW Holmes' famous 'bad man'. What emerges from this book is a view on law and practical reason that takes seriously the phenomenology of action.

This book will be of interest to anyone interested in philosophical accounts of how we engage our practical reasoning with complex social practices.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Murata, Daniel Peixoto

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Law, Normativity, and Respect: An Overview
2. Open-Minded Reasons Internalism
3. Practical Reason, Political Rule, and the Limits of Legal Positivism
4. Character, Respect, and Legal Normativity
5. Moral Reasons and Legal Normativity: Ronald Dworkin and John Finnis

Über Autor(innen)

Murata, Daniel Peixoto
Daniel Peixoto Murata is Professor of Law at the Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Brazil.

Daniel Peixoto Murata is is Professor of Law at the Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Brazil.