Ulrich R. Rohmer
Essential Philosophy of Law
Different Hermeneutical Approaches Towards A Phenomenon Called Law
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A law student must face many obstacles undergoing his or her legal studies, and one basic subject is
philosophy of law. It helps understanding both, nature and hermeneutics of something we call law. This is necessary in order to operate with legal terms related to different levels and references.
Hermeneutics is the kind and the art of properly understanding legal texts.
This book is a collection of different texts I put together to help a reader understanding manifold hermeneutical approaches towards law. Conceiving both, nature and meaning of law is always a matter of clarifying personal preconceptions, historical developments and linguistical contexts. I invite the reader to plunge into the subject by reading a good deal of articles and essays expressing different views and perspectives. Thus he or she will automatically enter the “terribly appearing" realm of legal philosophy (as many use to think). It needs only a little patience and courage following the course of texts preparing the attentive mind for deeper understanding.
Philosophy does never simply mean “theorization in vacuo”, but reading lots of papers and sources conducted in silence. Legal philosophy is in fact a demanding, but nevertheless a very interesting and refreshing human activity revealing at least an abysmal stupidity or a dirty deviousness of many (including well–known) politicians. For whatever reason… [mehr][weniger]
Stichwörter: Legal Hokey Pokey, philosophy of law, hermeneutics, legal philosophy, natural law, legal positivism, legal realism, Critical Legal Theory, interpretivism law, Thomas Hobbes, language, power, essentialism, morality, jurisprudence, realism, freedom, Benedict XVI, social justice, modern democracy, free will, Constitutional Rights, moral dilemma, authority, H.L.A. Hart, Judge Edith Jones, Founding Fathers, 9/11, Alexis de Tocqueville, Kenneth Starr, George Washington, Philip Howard: The Death of Common Sense, The Collapse of the Common Good, The Lost Art of Drawing the Line, moral relativism tending toward nihilism, Ronald Dworkin, suicide, David Hume: Essay on Suicide, Populational and Racial Policy (under Hitler), Slavoj Zizek, Leninist Freedom, Stalin’s Address to the People, Obama's Inaugural Speech, lobbyism, 'Fourth Branch' of Government, Agenda 21, UN, Brothers Grimm: The Aged Mother, heavenly justice and grace, Hugo Grotius, Thomas Aquinas, Zero of Citium, John Stuart Mill, Hans Kelsen, Jeremy Bentham, Cicero, Adam Smith, Richard Rorty, Joseph Raz, John Finnis, Habermas, Horkheimer, Adorno, Rawls, Descartes, Isaiah Berlin, Augustine, John Locke, imago dei, Gerald MacCallum, Brothers Grimm, Socialized Medicine [mehr][weniger]
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