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Moral conflict and legal reasoning

Title: Moral conflict and legal reasoning / Scott Veitch.
Author: Veitch, Scott.
Publication: Oxford [England] ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 1999.

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Description

viii, 219 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"This book sets the significance of moral conflict as a core concern for contemporary theorising about law and legal reasoning. It asks whether liberal legal structures can adequately deal with moral conflict, or whether they fall prey to intellectual and professional techniques and interests, which reduce the possibilities for meaningful dissensus. Concentrating on the meanings of moral conflict through an analysis of the work of Alasdair MacIntyre and Richard Rorty, it provides a defence of an 'agonistic liberalism' drawn from the work of Isaiah Berlin which puts conflict over values at the heart of its critical concerns. But in so doing, and drawing on writers from a variety of intellectual positions, including enlightenment, postmodern and feminist analyses, it argues that the practices and presuppositions of liberal legalism must be challenged as failing to live up to the aspirations of the agonistic liberal theory."--Jacket.

Series Statement

European Academy of Legal Theory series

Uniform Title

European Academy of Legal Theory series.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-215) and index.

Contents

The dark ages of liberalism -- The politics of the emotivist compromise -- A liberal response -- Liberalism and law: MacIntyre and Berlin -- On liberal legalism -- Law, conflict, and consensus.

ISBN

1841131083
9781841131085

LCCN

2001266629

OCLC

ocm43766867
43766867
SCSB-9003119

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Princeton University Library