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Routledge - Justice and the Slaughter Bench: Law Essays

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In Justice and the Slaughter Bench: Essays on Law's Broken Dialectic, Alan Norrie provides a deep examination of the tension between legal and ethical judgment. As a follow-up to Law and the Beautiful Soul, this work explores how legal formalism both avoids and depends on ethics. The text is structured to guide readers through the practical aspects of legal form and the ethical problems found within law's architectonic. Moving beyond simple definitions, the essays analyze the complex relationship between law and ethics, referred to as law's constellation. While Hegel's philosophy suggests that legal and ethical judgments can form a rational totality, Norrie argues that this synthesis remains unachieved. This book is a significant resource for those studying the historical and philosophical foundations of legal systems and the ongoing struggle to reconcile law with moral principles.

Key Features

Explores the split between legal and ethical judgment through a historical lens.

Follows the themes established in the previous work, Law and the Beautiful Soul.

Analyzes the practical aspects of legal form and its inherent ethical problems.

Examines the complex relationship between law and ethics, known as law's constellation.

Provides a critical look at Hegelian philosophy regarding legal and ethical totality.

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hardcover
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Amazon UK
Release Date
30 August 2016
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19 August 2015

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