Judging positivism [electronic resource] / Margaret Martin.

"Judging Positivism is a critical exploration of the method and substance of legal positivism. Margaret Martin is primarily concerned with the manner in which theorists who adopt the dominant positivist paradigm ask a limited set of questions and offer an equally limited set of answers, artificially...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Martin, Margaret (Law teacher) (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Hart Publishing, 2014.
Subjects:	Raz, Joseph. Legal positivism. Law > Philosophy.
Online Access:	EBSCO eBooks: 2014 (EBSCO) eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2014 (EBSCO)
Format:	Electronic eBook

Contents:

Setting the stage : Practical reason and norms reconsidered
Between fact and value
The perils of positivism : why Raz becomes a realist
Raz's The morality of freedom : two models of authority
Law as public practical reasons revisited
The path not taken
Conclusion. The Raz-Postema debate deconstructed.