The Concept of Ideals in Legal Theory

Voorkant
Springer Science & Business Media, 31 dec 2002 - 253 pagina's
Talk about law often includes reference to ideals of justice, equality or freedom. But what do we refer to when we speak about ideals in the context of law? This book explores the concept of ideals by combining an investigation of different theories of ideals with a discussion of the role of ideals in law. A comparison of the theories of Gustav Radbruch and Philip Selznick leads up to a pragmatist theory of legal ideals, which provides an interesting new position in the debate about values in law between legal positivists and natural law thinkers. Attention for law's central ideals enables us to understand law's autonomous character, while at the same time tracing its connection to societal values.
Essential reading for anyone interested in the role of values or ideals in law.
 

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IDEALS IN LEGAL THEORY AN INTRODUCTION
1
2 Ideals and Values
4
3 Moral Ideals Legal Ideals
9
4 Rules Principles Ideals
11
5 The Aims and Structure of This Book
14
TWO CONCEPTS OF IDEALS
17
2 Ideals as Transcendent
18
3 Ideals as Immanent
28
3 Selznicks Social Though
111
4 Legal Theory
116
SELZNICK ON IDEALS
121
2 The Nature of Values
123
3 The Latency of Values
132
4 Master Ideals
136
5 Ideals and Law
142
6 Conclusions
148

4 The Merits of the Two Concepts
40
THE THEORY OF GUSTAV RADBRUCH
47
2 Radbruchs General Philosophical Views
48
3 Legal Philosophy and Legal Science
55
4 From Legal Positivism to Natural Law? Radbruchs Turn
63
RADBRUCH ON IDEALS
69
2 The Nature of Values
71
3 Values and Reality
77
4 The Interaction of Values
81
5 The Role of Values in Law
83
6 The Concept of Ideals
88
7 Conclusions
91
THE THEORY OF PHILIP SELZNICK
99
Selznicks Method
100
DEVELOPING A CONCEPT OF IDEALS FOR LEGAL THEORY
155
2 Evaluation Radbruch and Selznick
160
3 Improving the Pragmatist Theory of Values
171
4 Developing a Theory of Legal Ideals
178
5 Conclusions
194
RECOGNIZING THE IDEALS OF LAW Beyond Legal Positivism and Natural Law Theory
197
2 The Debate Between Legal Positivism and Natural Law Theory
198
3 Evaluating the Different Positions
210
4 Radbruch and Selznicks as NonPositivists
220
5 The Promise of a Pragmatist Theory
227
REFERENCES
233
INDEX
245
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