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Legal Reason

The Use of Analogy in Legal Argument

By: Lloyd L. Weinreb

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The Use of Analogy in Legal Argument

By: Lloyd L. Weinreb

Legal Reason describes and explains analogical reasoning, the distinctive feature of legal argument. It challenges the prevailing view that analogical reasoning is a logically flawed, defective form of deductive reasoning. Drawing on work in epistemology and cognitive psychology, the book shows that analogical reasoning in the law is the same as that used by everyone routinely in ordinary life, and that it is a valid form of reasoning, derived from the innate human capacity to recognize the general in the particular. The use of analogical reasoning in law is dictated by the nature of law, which calls for the application of general rules to particular facts. Critiques of the first edition of the book are addressed directly and objections answered in a new chapter. Written for scholars, students, and persons interested in law, Legal Reason is written in accessible prose, with examples drawn from the law and everyday experience.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316982769

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9781316982761

Natural Law and Justice

By: Lloyd L. Weinreb

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Human beings are a part of nature and apart from it." The argument of Natural Law and Justice is that the philosophy of natural law and contemporary theories about the nature of justice are both efforts to make sense of the fundamental paradox of human experience: individual freedom and responsibility in a causally determined universe. Professor Weinreb restores the original understanding of natural law as a philosophy about the place of humankind in nature. He traces the natural law tradition from its origins in Greek speculation through its classic Christian statement by Thomas Aquinas. He goes on to show how the social contract theorists adapted the idea of natural law to provide for political obligation in civil society and how the idea was transformed in Kant's account of human freedom. He brings the historical narrative down to the present with a discussion of the contemporary debate between natural law and legal positivism, including particularly the natural law theories of Finnis, Richards, and Dworkin. Professor Weinreb then adopts the approach of modern political philosophy to develop the idea of justice as a union of the distinct ideas of desert and entitlement. He shows liberty and equality to be the political analogues of desert and entitlement and both pairs to be the normative equivalents of freedom and cause. In this part of the book, Weinreb considers the theories of justice of Rawls and Nozick as well as the communitarian theory of Maclntyre and Sandel. The conclusion brings the debates about natural law and justice together, as parallel efforts to understand the human condition. This original contribution to legal philosophy will be especially appreciated by scholars, teachers, and students in the fields of political philosophy, legal philosophy, and the law generally.

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Harvard University Press

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0674604261

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Oedipus at Fenway Park

What Rights are and why There are Any

By: Lloyd L. Weinreb

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What Rights are and why There are Any

By: Lloyd L. Weinreb

We speak of rights as though they are matters of fact that have a crucial bearing on how we ought to behave. Yet few, if any, rights are universally acknowledged without wide differences of meaning. Weinreb makes the first significant advance toward an understanding of what rights are, how they function in our lives, and why we need them.

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Harvard University Press

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0674630920

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9780674630925

Oedipus at Fenway Park

What Rights are and why There are Any

By: Lloyd L. Weinreb

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What Rights are and why There are Any

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Legal Reason

The Use of Analogy in Legal Argument

By: Lloyd L. Weinreb

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1316607321

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Legal Reason

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