Law As Symbolic Form Ernst Cassirer and the Anthropocentric View of Law /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Coskun, Deniz (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: Law and Philosophy Library, 82
• Subjects: Law.; Political science.; Philosophy.; Law > Philosophy.; Fundamentals of Law.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Philosophy, general.; Philosophy of Law.; Political Science.

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 worl...