In the past twenty years, social injustice has increased enormously in Britain and the United States, regardless of the party in power. At the same time, the idea of social justice itself has been subverted, as the mantras of personal responsibility and equal opportunity have been employed as an excuse for doing nothing about the enrichment of the few at the expense of the many and for making ever ...

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Manufacturer: Polity
Written By: Brian Barry

The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory is a handy guide to the state of play in contemporary philosophy of law and legal theory.Comprises 23 essays critical essays on the central themes and issues of the philosophy of law today, written by an international assembly of distinguished philosophers and legal theorists Each essay incorporates ...

Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell

Including three of his most famous and important essays, Utilitarianism, On Liberty, and Essay on Bentham, along with formative selections from Jeremy Bentham and John Austin, this volume provides a uniquely perspicuous view of Mill's ethical and political thought.Contains Mill's most famous and influential works, Utilitarianism and On Liberty as ...

Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell
Written By: John Stuart Mill

Manufacturer: LexisNexis
Written By: William M. Richman, William L. Reynolds

[Destutt de Tracy, Antoine Louis Claude, Comte. [Jefferson, Thomas]. A Commentary and Review of Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws, Prepared For Press From the Original Manuscript in the Hands of the Publisher. To Which Are Annexed, Observations on the Thirty-First Book, by the Late M. Condorcet: And Two Letters of Helveticus, on the Merits of the Same Work. Philadelphia: Duane, 1811. viii, 292 pp. ...

Manufacturer: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Written By: Antoine Louis Claude Comte Destutt de Tracy, Thomas Jefferson (Translator)

This Reader offers a remarkable overview of the field of law and anthropology: its development, present, and potential future courses. Edited by a preeminent anthropologist, lawyer, and pioneer in the study of law & anthropology. Brings together classics of political thought and key contemporary work from social scientists and lawyers. Explores historical ...

Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell

The last two decades or so have seen a marked resurgence of interest in natural law thought. Russell Hittinger has been a major figure in this movement. The First Grace: Rediscovering the Natural Law in a Post-Christian World reveals the power and subtlety of Hittinger’s philosophical work and cultural criticism. Hittinger first defines the natural law, considers its relationship to the positive ...

Manufacturer: ISI Books
Written By: Russell Hittinger

Manufacturer: W W Norton & Co Inc
Written By: Larry Meir Friedman

The essays in this volume concern the topic of legal rights, how they are related to morality, the place of rights on moral theory, and the legal recognition of rights.

Manufacturer: NYU Press

MIGHT IS RIGHT is an unprecedented book by an author of extraordinary virility and rugged primeval force, whose sense perceptions border on the supernatural. The Laws of Nature are explained, defined and expounded upon in detail in eloquent 19th century English.

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Written By: Ragnar Redbeard, Ron McVan, Katja Lane