1st Edition

A Preface to Morals

By Walter Lippmann Copyright 1982
404 Pages
by Routledge

404 Pages
by Routledge

375 Pages
by Routledge

After an eloquent and moving analysis of what he sees as the disillusion of themodern age, Lippmann posits as the central dilemma of liberalism its inability to find an appropriate substitute for the older forms of authority - church, state, class, family, law, custom - that it has denied. Lippmann attempts to find a way out of this chaos through the acceptance of a higher humanism and a way of... Read more
I: The Law; Nomostatics; I: The Concept of Law; II: The Sanction; III: The Delict; IV: The Legal Duty; V: The Legal Responsibility; VI: The Legal Right; VII: Competence (Legal Capacity); VIII: Imputation (Imputability); IX: The Legal Person; Nomodynamics; X: The Legal Order; XI: The Hierarchy of the Norms; XII: Normative and Sociological Jurisprudence; II: The State; 13: The Law and the State; II: The Elements of The State; III: The Separation of Powers; IV: Forms of Government: Democracy and Autocracy; V: Forms of Organization: Centralization and Decentralization; VI: National and International Law

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Bernard J. Paris