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Can a boy be "trapped" in a girl's body? Can modern medicine "reassign" sex? Is our sex "assigned" to us in the first place? What is the most loving response to a person experiencing a conflicted sense of gender? What should our law say on matters of "gender identity"? When Harry Became Sally provides thoughtful answers to questions arising from our transgender moment. Drawing on the best insights from biology, psychology, and philosophy, Ryan Anderson...
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"A panoramic history of rules in the Western world. Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of life, from birth through death. We may chafe under the rules we have, and yearn for ones we don't, yet no culture could do without them. In Rules, historian Lorraine Daston traces their development...
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First published in 1789, Jeremy Bentham's best-known work remains a classic of modern philosophy and jurisprudence. Its definitions of the foundations of utilitarian philosophy and its groundbreaking studies of crime and punishment retain their relevance to modern issues of moral and political philosophy, economics, and legal theory. Based on the assumption that individuals seek pleasure and avoid pain, Bentham's utilitarian perspective forms a guide...
4) The laws
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A lively dialogue between a foreign philosopher and a powerful statesman, Plato's Laws reflects the essence of the philosopher's reasoning on political theory and practice. It also embodies his mature and more practical ideas about a utopian republic. Plato's discourse ranges from everyday issues of criminal and matrimonial law to wider considerations involving the existence of the gods, the nature of the soul, and the problem of evil. This translation...
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A punishment may not be an act of violence, of one or of many, against a private member of society, it should be public, immediate and necessary; the least possible in the case given; proportioned to the crime, and determined by the laws.
Beccaria was an Italian economist and jurist. He wrote on the currency and other economic subjects, but his greatest work was his Treatise on Crimes and Punishments, first published in 1764, in which he argues against...
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Santo Tomás de Aquino es uno de los más grandes filósofos de la historia universal. Su monumental obra Suma de teología no solo ha sido un referente de primer orden para la doctrina de la Iglesia, sino que ha sido y será determinante en las más variadas expresiones de las ciencias sociales y, por supuesto, en el derecho. La teoría de la ley, las profundas reflexiones sobre el derecho natural, la teoría de la justicia y su relación con el...
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El debate en torno al positivismo jurídico se mantiene a lo largo de los últimos siglos. Desde el siglo XIX hasta el XXI aparece un hilo que conecta y comunica las ideas jurídicas. En esta constante, el último en proponer su desafío ha sido el neoconstitucionalismo. Desarrollado durante años y a través de autores diferentes entre sí, bien puede decirse que el término "neoconstitucionalismo" tiene fecha de nacimiento en este libro, publicado...
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A controversial call to put honor at the center of morality To the modern mind, the idea of honor is outdated, sexist, and barbaric. It evokes Hamilton and Burr and pistols at dawn, not visions of a well-organized society. But for philosopher Tamler Sommers, a sense of honor is essential to living moral lives. In Why Honor Matters, Sommers argues that our collective rejection of honor has come at great cost. Reliant only on Enlightenment liberalism,...
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Aunque la teoría de la argumentación jurídica de Perelman ha sido poco estudiada en nuestro ámbito, ésta puede aplicarse a la argumentación judicial, siempre que lleguemos a establecer el vínculo de los conceptos fundamentales de esta teoría, y toda vez que esta articulación ilumine el objeto de investigación que examinaremos a lo largo de los ensayos que contiene el presente libro.
Por lo demás, los trabajos realizados en Colombia sobre...
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What remains anti-democratic in our criminal justice systems, and where does it come from? Geoffroy de Lagasnerie spent years sitting in on trials, watching as individuals were judged and sentenced for armed robbery, assault, rape, and murder. His experience led to this original reflection on the penal state, power, and violence that identifies a paradox in the way justice is exercised in liberal democracies. In order to pronounce a judgment, a trial...
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Eminent Princeton Philosopher Paul Ramsey looks at the lives and ideas of nine famous Moralists of the modern age.
The featured philosophers are - Paul Tillich, Karl Marx, H. Richard Niebuhr, Fyodor Dostoevski, Reinhold Niebuhr, Jacques Maritain, Jean-Paul Sartre, Emil Brunner and Edmond Cahn.
"The greatness of the men whose insight and reflections are the subject of the following chapters is obviously a sufficient justification for this volume....
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The Science of Right has for its object the principles of all the laws which it is possible to promulgate by external legislation. Where there is such a legislation, it becomes, in actual application to it, a system of positive right and law; and he who is versed in the knowledge of this system is called a jurist or jurisconsult (jurisconsultus). A practical jurisconsult (jurisperitus), or a professional lawyer, is one who is skilled in the knowledge...
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Here are six historic essays on the state of race relations during the Reconstruction and early twentieth century, written from the African American point of view. These essays show us how far race relations have progressed, and sadly, how far we have yet to go. Included are "Industrial Education for the Negro" by Booker T. Washington, "The Talented Tenth" by W.E. Burghardt DuBois, "The Disfranchisement of the Negro" by Charles W. Chesnutt, "The Negro...
14) On Settling
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Robert E. Goodin is professor of government at the University of Essex and distinguished professor of philosophy and social and political theory at Australian National University.
The hidden value of settling
In a culture that worships ceaseless striving, "settling" seems like giving up. But is it? On Settling defends the positive value of settling, explaining why this disdained practice is not only more realistic but more useful than an excessive...
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David Kennedy is Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
In this provocative and timely book, David Kennedy explores what can go awry when we put our humanitarian yearnings into action on a global scale--and what we can do in response.
Rooted in Kennedy's own experience in numerous humanitarian efforts, the book examines campaigns for human rights, refugee protection, economic development, and for humanitarian limits to the...
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Términos como transformación, evolución o cambio presiden el devenir de los últimos dos siglos. Resulta innegable que, en momentos y aspectos diferentes, la sociedad moderna ha experimentado profundos desarrollos en las ciencias, la economía y la política, lo que hace necesario enfrentarla a diferentes procesos de fundamentación y crítica. La Filosofía del Derecho no podía quedar al margen de esta continua revolución: bien puede decirse...
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Dieciséis ensayos dedicados a la discusión de problemas vinculados a la prueba, la argumentación y la justicia.
El libro está dividido en tres partes. La primera analiza la argumentación en materia de hechos y procura esclarecer el rol que cumplen hoy las pruebas científicas en la toma de decisiones judiciales, centrándose en diversos problemas que plantea la epistemología clásica. ¿Qué criterio de objetividad guía las prácticas jurídicas?...
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Este libro expone la relación entre el Derecho y la política en la obra de Hanna Arendt. El planteamiento principal es que la reivindicación y reconceptualización que Arendt hace de la política permite concebir un lugar para el Derecho que lejos de obstaculizar la acción ciudadana y la democracia directa, busca potenciarlas. El Derecho en la teoría política arendtiana sirve para garantizar la capacidad de actuar de los seres humanos en el...
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With the integration of these 3 Laws of Life we can understand Evolution and therefore its Purpose, answering the questions that several human disciplines (Science, Theology, Philosophy) pose separately, which furthermore seem to hit rock bottom if not answered from a Theory of Everything that integrates them: scientists should be able to accept that a Dimension of Unicity exists where there is no matter to analyse nor physical or chemical law to...
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Andrei Marmor is professor of philosophy, Maurice Jones Jr. Professor of Law, and director of the Center for Law and Philosophy at the University of Southern California. His books include Social Conventions: From Language to Law (Princeton) and Law in the Age of Pluralism.
In Philosophy of Law, Andrei Marmor provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary debates about the fundamental nature of law-an issue that has been at the heart of legal...
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