Sellers Law, Reason, and Emotion

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-108-35973-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

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How law is considered is a frequent theme of scholars and practitioners. As a product of societal norms, law is a multifaceted concept. This volume brings together leading academics to explore the role, importance and power of reason and emotion in justice and the law. Lawyers and legal philosophers consider the implications for law inherent in the human need for society, our innate sense of justice and many other powerful inclinations and human emotions - including the desire for fairness and even for law itself. Human beings are deeply social creatures, inspired by social and other emotions that can ennoble, support or undermine the law, but law gains legitimacy and effectiveness when reason recognizes and embraces human emotions for the benefit of society as a whole. This is a thought-provoking text that will provide a valuable theoretical basis for those who wish to develop more just and effective legal institutions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sellers, Mortimer

Sellers, M. N. S.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction Mortimer Sellers; 2. Law, reason, and emotion Mortimer Sellers; 3. Law's emotions Robin West; 4. The domestication of emotion András Sajó; 5. Neuroscience, philosophy, and the foundations of legal justice Matthias Mahlmann; 6. Rights, reason, and emotion Daniel Mendonca Bonnet; 7. Law and honor Anthony Appiah; 8. Interactive reason and law Ko Hasegawa; 9. The wrath of reason Patricia Mindus.

Über Autor(innen)

Sellers, Mortimer
Mortimer Newlin Stead Sellers is Regents Professor of the University System of Maryland, Balitmore, the highest honor in the Maryland Academic System, and President of the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR). He received his doctorate and civil law degree from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar and T. H. Green Fellow, and took his bachelor's and law degrees at Harvard University, where he was a Frank Knox Fellow and John Harvard scholar. Sellers completed this book as the H. L. A. Hart Fellow at University College, Oxford. He is Director of the University of Baltimore Center for International and Comparative Law.