Ethical Dimensions of Legal Theory

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Wojciech Sadurski
Rodopi, 1991 - 211 Seiten

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Wojciech Sadurski Introduction
14
Hannu Tapani Klami Johanna Sorvettula and Minna Hatakka
33
Tomasz GizbertStudnicki Conflict of Values in Adjudication
53
Martin Krygier Thinking Like a Lawyer
67
15
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Raymond Wacks Judges and Moral Responsibility
111
Zygmunt Ziembiński The Concept of Morality in Philosophy
131
Guy Haarscher Law Reason and Ethics in the Philosophy
141
Campbell Unlawful Discrimination
153
Some Reflections
171
Charles Sampford and David Wood Tax Justice and the Priority
181
Notes on the Contributors
209
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Seite 154 - The enjoyment of the rights and freedoms set forth in this Convention shall be secured without discrimination on any ground such as sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status.
Seite 149 - For there is no such finis ultimus (utmost aim), nor summum bonum (greatest good) , as is spoken of in the books of the old moral philosophers. Nor can a man any more live whose desires are at an end than he whose senses and imaginations are at a stand. Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.
Seite 76 - Tradition is not simply a permanent precondition; rather, we produce it ourselves inasmuch as we understand, participate in the evolution of tradition, and hence further determine it ourselves.
Seite 171 - Sustainable Development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs' (World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future, 1987).
Seite 150 - Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
Seite 80 - Law as integrity denies that statements of law are either the backward-looking factual reports of conventionalism or the forwardlooking instrumental programs of legal pragmatism. It insists that legal claims are interpretive judgments and therefore combine backward- and forward-looking elements; they interpret contemporary legal practice seen as an unfolding political narrative. So law as integrity rejects as unhelpful the ancient question whether judges find or invent law; we understand legal reasoning,...
Seite 90 - W* they gather up of Casuists, Schoolmen, Morall Philosophers, and Treatises touching Moralls in the Theory, that So are in high Speculations and abstract Notions touching Justice and Right, and as they differ Extreamely among themselves when they come to particular applications, So are most Comonly the worst Judges that can be, because they are transported from the Ordinary Measures of right and wrong by their over fine Speculacons Theoryes and distinctions above the Comon Staple of humane Conversations.
Seite 113 - dilemma" it states has the verbal formulation of a problem, but the problem it states makes no sense. It is like saying I have to choose between giving food to a starving man and being mimsy with the borogoves.

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