Description: Further DetailsTitle: Why the Law Matters to YouCondition: NewFormat: HardbackSubtitle: Citizenship, Agency, and Public IdentityISBN-10: 3110323958EAN: 9783110323955ISBN: 9783110323955Publisher: De GruyterRelease Date: 08/19/2013Description: This book presents an answer to the question of why modern legal institutions and the idea of citizenship are important for leading a free life. The majority of views in political and legal philosophy regard the law merely as a useful instrument, employed to render our lives more secure and to enable us to engage in cooperate activities more efficiently. The view developed here defends a non-instrumentalist alternative of why the law matters. It identifies the law as a constitutive feature of our identities as citizens of modern states. The constitutivist argument rests on the (Kantian) assumption that a person’s practical identity (its normative self-conception as an agent) is the result of its actions. The law co-constitutes these identities because it maintains the external conditions that are necessary for the actions performed under its authority. Modern legal institutions provide these external prerequisites for achieving a high degree of individual self-constitution and freedom. Only public principles can establish our status as individuals who pursue their life plans and actions as a matter of right and not because others contingently happen to let us do so. The book thereby provides resources for a reply to anarchist challenges to the necessity of legal ordering.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: DEItem Height: 230mmItem Length: 155mmItem Weight: 527gAuthor: Christoph HanischGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: Practical PhilosophyTopic: Law & PoliticsType: PhilosophyRelease Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Why the Law Matters to You
Title: Why the Law Matters to You
Subtitle: Citizenship, Agency, and Public Identity
ISBN-10: 3110323958
EAN: 9783110323955
ISBN: 9783110323955
Release Date: 08/19/2013
Release Year: 2013
Country/Region of Manufacture: DE
Item Height: 230mm
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Law & Politics
Number of Pages: 275 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Why the Law Matters to You : Citizenship, Agency, and Public Identity
Publisher: DE Gruyter, Inc.
Publication Year: 2013
Subject: Ethics & Moral Philosophy, General, Jurisprudence, Political, Civics & Citizenship
Item Weight: 18.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.1 in
Author: Christoph Hanisch
Subject Area: Law, Philosophy, Political Science
Series: Practical Philosophy Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
