Description
| Product ID: | 9781108420761 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Law, Reason, and Emotion |
| Authors: | Author: M. N. S. Sellers |
| Page Count: | 254 |
| Subjects: | Philosophy, Philosophy, Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Law and society, sociology of law, Law, Jurisprudence & philosophy of law, Law & society |
| Description: | What place do reason and emotion have in justice and the law? This thought-provoking text brings together leading lawyers and legal philosophers to argue that law gains legitimacy and effectiveness when reason recognizes and embraces human emotions for the benefit of society as a whole. This book examines the role and importance of reason and emotion in justice and the law. Eight lawyers and philosophers of law consider law''s basis in the universal human need for society, our innate sense of justice, and many other powerful inclinations and emotions, including the desire for fairness and even for law itself. Human beings are deeply social creatures, inspired by social and other emotions, which can ennoble, support, or undermine the law. Law gains legitimacy and effectiveness when reason recognizes and embraces human emotions for the benefit of society as a whole. This volume explores the power and purposes of reason and emotion in the law. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-12-28 |
