ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 0000
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

U prihvatljivom stanju (skromno podvlačena grafitnom)

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Yale Univ. Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 1, 1967
Language ‏ : ‎ English

Professor Fuller undertakes to redefine the relation between law and morality and in doing so reformulates and clarifies both concepts. His argument takes its point of departure in a distinction between the morality of duty and the morality of aspiration, both of which bear on the design and operation of social institutions: the former by setting the necessary preconditions of any purposive social endeavor, the latter by suggesting the directions for such endeavor. The author goes on to elucidate another important distinction, that between the external morality of the law—the morality of the ends law chooses to serve—and the internal morality of law, which is concerned with the forms and restraints law must respect if it is to preserve its own integrity and moral force.

“The volume must be regarded as an important contribution of general interest to the study of the nature and function of law. It would not be unfair to describe Professor Fuller as being a natural lawyer, although he does not expound a traditional naturalist view. . . . Trenchant comment abounds throughout the book, and there is an immense amount of the most valuable material here, as well as considerable food for thought. It is a difficult task to write a good book on jurisprudence, unless it is to be a very shallow work. Professor Fuller has made a notable contribution to jurisprudential thinking, and his book deserves to reach a very wide audience.”
—Law Times.

“The book is a provocative one which is certain to excite much academic comment here and abroad.”—Harvard Law Record.

“A most valuable and challenging essay on the nature of law. . . . In language that is contemporary and knowledgeable, Fuller presents his views authoritatively but never pompously in a style of argumentation often casual but never sloppy. Although fully intelligible to the undergraduate, this book is likely to receive its warmest reception from advanced students of the philosophy of law, who will welcome the relief provided from the frequently sterile tone of much recent work in the field.”—Choice.