Law can be seen to consist not only of rules and decisions, but also of a framework of institutions providing a structure that forms the conditions of its workable existence and acceptance. In this book, Olsen and Toddington conduct a philosophical exploration and critique of these conditions: what they are and how they shape our understanding of what constitutes a legal system and the role of justice within it.
Author(s): Henrik Palmer Olsen and Stuart Toddington
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 226
Contents......Page 6
Series Editor's Preface......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 10
The Architecture of Justice......Page 12
The Story So Far......Page 14
Gewirth’s Argument to the PGC......Page 15
The Integration of Ethical and Legal Theory......Page 19
Objectivity and Perfectionism......Page 21
Idealism or Pragmatism? Objections to the ‘Foundational’ Argument......Page 22
Part 1: Explanation, Critique and Human Interests......Page 26
Social Norms and Legal Norms......Page 29
Incommensurabilism, Pragmatism and Proceduralism......Page 35
Selznick, Fuller and Pragmatism......Page 36
‘Variability’......Page 38
‘Baseline and Flourishing’ Criteria......Page 39
‘Weak Definitions/Strong Theories’......Page 40
Why Does Pragmatism Reject Foundationalism?......Page 44
Part 2: Pragmatism and the ‘Incommensurability of Values’......Page 46
Incommensurability and Natural Law?......Page 47
Goods, Rights, Values and Principles......Page 49
Incommensurability and Moral ‘Dilemmas’......Page 60
Shaun Pattinson: Extrapolating From Basic Principles......Page 63
Principle, Procedure and Authority......Page 68
On the Incommensurability of Systemic Rules......Page 69
Part 3: Fuller’s Proceduralism and the Morality of Law......Page 70
2 Means, Ends and the Idea of Freedom......Page 78
Negative and Affirmative Freedom......Page 79
Institutional Design: Means, Ends and the Concept of Freedom......Page 82
The Metaphor of Architecture......Page 85
Means, Ends and Sociological Method......Page 89
Freedom and the Source of the Legal Impulse......Page 91
Fuller, Gewirth and the Idea of Effective Agency......Page 92
3 The Politics of Affirmative Freedom......Page 98
Hume and Mill on the Social Contract......Page 99
‘Of the Original Contract’......Page 100
J.S. Mill’s ‘Critique’ of the Social Contract......Page 103
Liberalism: Individual Freedom and Public Authority......Page 104
(i) The Abstracted Self......Page 106
(ii) Arbitrariness of Ends......Page 107
Thinking About Institutional Design......Page 109
Affirmative Freedom and Human Nature......Page 110
Towards a Synthesis......Page 114
The Complexity of Eunomic Freedom......Page 115
4 Natural Law, Sovereignty and Institutional Design......Page 118
Constitutionalism and the Locus of Sovereignty......Page 119
The Persistence of the Hobbesian Objection......Page 120
The Power to Interpret the Laws......Page 121
The Prudential, the Moral and the Legal......Page 122
A Continuum of Practical Reason......Page 130
The Discontinuity Thesis......Page 132
Kant’s Concept of Obligation......Page 134
Eunomics and Civil Society......Page 142
Civil Society or ‘Civil Society Talk’......Page 143
Civil Association and the PGC......Page 146
From Universalism to Multiculturalism......Page 150
Equality and Inclusiveness......Page 151
A Brief History of Pluralism......Page 155
Carl Schmitt’s Analysis of Pluralism......Page 160
Beyond Schmitt and the Pluralists......Page 163
From Pluralism to Multiculturalism......Page 164
‘Descriptive’ and ‘Critical’ Conceptions of the Pluralist Condition......Page 167
Multiculturalism and the Case of the Hijab......Page 173
The Wider Lesson of the Hijab......Page 179
The Reflexive Fallacy in Multicultural Critique......Page 184
Pluralism and Eunomic Design......Page 187
Religion and Human Rights......Page 188
Origins of the Freedom of Religion......Page 189
The Character of Religion......Page 190
The Right to Freedom of Religion and its Absorption into Other Rights......Page 191
Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Association and Assembly......Page 193
Freedom of Religion and the Prohibition Against Discrimination on the Ground of Religion......Page 195
Rituals and Rites......Page 197
The Right to Observe Religious Rituals......Page 199
Freedom of Religion: Conviction and Action......Page 204
Arguing Against the Special Status of Religious Belief......Page 206
Evans:Toleration and Peace......Page 208
Ahdar and Leigh: Liberal Justifications for Special Protection......Page 211
Ahdar and Leigh: The ‘Duty vs. Preference’ Argument......Page 212
Stephen D. Smith: ‘Democratic Civic Virtue’......Page 214
Epilogue: Equality, Diversity and Limits to Social Freedom......Page 216
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Z......Page 223
E......Page 224
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S......Page 226
W......Page 227
