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Author Coskun, Deniz.

Title Law as symbolic form : Ernst Cassirer and the anthropocentric view of law / Deniz Coskun
Published Dordrecht : Springer Verlag, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 381 pages)
Series Law and philosophy library ; v. 82
Law and philosophy library ; v. 82.
Contents Front Matter; Cassirer's Public Engagement with Weimar; Cassirer And Heidegger. An Intermezzo on Magic Mountain; Cassirer In Exile An Essay On The Recovery Of Individual Moral Judgement; The Politics Of Myth. Cassirer's Pathology Of The Totalitarian State; The Philosophy Of Symbolic Forms; Cassirer's Position In Relation To Neo-Kantianism?; Law As A Symbolic Form; The Linguistic Turn Of Social Contract Theory; Cassirer's Position In Relation To Neo-Kantian Jurisprudence; Back Matter
Summary Jurisprudence, according to Cassirer, is not merely the systematic, conceptual pursuance of ethics. They are separate domains for Cassirer, and both direct their claims differently on the individual. Whereas ethics concerns the motives of the individual, law ultimately achieves a cosmos for our world of outward actions. However, they are not separated by a neutral line or a vacuum. For law to have effect as a symbolic form it is necessary that it reflects the law in the mind of people i.e., that one could and ought to have assented to it out of ethical principles and maxims. The conceptual ana
Analysis recht
law
interdisciplinair onderzoek
interdisciplinary research
filosofie
philosophy
politicologie
political science
Law (General)
Recht (algemeen)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-378) and index
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Subject Cassirer, Ernst, 1874-1945
SUBJECT Cassirer, Ernst, 1874-1945. cct
Cassirer, Ernst, 1874-1945 fast
Subject Law -- Philosophy.
LAW -- Jurisprudence.
LAW -- General Practice.
LAW -- Reference.
LAW -- Essays.
LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism.
LAW -- Practical Guides.
Law -- Philosophy.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Law -- Philosophy
Recht.
Symboliek.
Ethiek.
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