On Law and Reason

• Main Author: Peczenik, Aleksander (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Edition: 2.
• Series: Law and Philosophy Library, 8
• Subjects: Law.; Epistemology.; Logic.; Ontology.; Political science.; Law > Philosophy.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Philosophy of Law.

'This is an outline of a coherence theory of law. Its basic ideas are: reasonable support and weighing of reasons. All the rest is commentary.’ These words at the beginning of the preface of this book perfectly indicate what On Law and Reason is about. It is a theory about the nature of the law...

Table of Contents:

• The Dilemma of Legal Reasoning: Moral Evaluation or Description of the Law?
• Rationality of Moral Judgments
• Rationality of Legal Reasoning
• The Ultimate Justification of Moral and Legal Reasoning
• What is Valid Law?
• The Doctrine of the Sources of the Law
• The Methods of Legal Reasoning.