The Nature of Arguments about the Nature of Law

Rights, Culture and the Law: Themes from the Legal and Political Philosophy of Joseph Raz

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Alexy, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coercion; Correctness; Extreme injustice; Joseph raz; Law; Legal philosophy; Legitimacy; Morality; Nature of law; Social reality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920751602     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199248254.003.0001     Document Type: Chapter

References (12)

1. Joseph Raz, 'On the Nature of Law", Archives for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, 82 (1996), 1-25, 6.
2. Hans Kelsen, Introduction to the Problems of Legal Theory, a translation, by B. Litschewski Paulson and S.L. Paulson, of the first edition of the Reine Recbtslehre (1934), (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), 13.
3. Gottlob Frege, 'The Thought: A Logical Inquiry', trans. A.M. Quinton and M. Quinton, in Philosophical Logic, ed. P.F. Strawson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967), 17-38, 29.
4. Hermann Kantorowicz, The Definition of Law, ed. A.H. Campbell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1958), 6.
5. J.L, Austin, 'A Plea for Excuses', in Austin, Philosophical Papers, ed. J.O. Urmson and G.J. Warnock, 2nd edn. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970), 175-204, 185.
6. Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysics of Morals, trans. M. Gregor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 124.
7. Jules Coleman, 'Authority and Reason', in The Autonomy of Law (n. 20 ), 287-319, 316.
8. Philip Soper, 'Law's Normative Claims', in The Autonomy of Law (n. 20 ). 215-4,. 217, 230-1.
9. H L. A. Hart, The Concept of Law, 2nd edn. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), 128.
10. See Robert Alexy, 'The Special Case Thesis', Ratio Juris, 12 (1999), 378-44, 378-9.
11. Kent Greenawalt, 'Too Thin and Too Rich: Distinguishing Features of Legal Positivism', in The Autonomy of Law (n. 20 ), 1-29, 9.
12. H.L.A. Hart, 'Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals', in Hart, Essays in Jurisprudence and Philosophy (Oxford; Clarendon Press, 1983), 49-87, 84.