Analytical Legal Naturalism

Author:   S Zinaich Jr.
Publisher:   Lexington Books
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9781498598811


Pages:   206
Publication Date:   21 December 2021
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Analytical Legal Naturalism


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In legal jurisprudence, the phenomenon of “hard cases” presents itself as a dilemma between the legal positivists and the natural law realists. Of the former, without the metaphysical underpinnings of an objective legal or moral standard, the legal positivists cannot supply convincing arguments to supplant the sovereign as the origin and authority of law. The natural law realists face the problem of justifying the natural law. Against both views, S. Zinaich Jr. defends a middle position, Analytical Legal Naturalism (ALN). It represents an analytic norm, both necessarily true and known a posteriori. Against the legal positivists, it supplies an objective legal standard by removing--at least for hard cases--the necessity of the will of a sovereign authority. Against the natural law realists, ALN provides a nonmoral standard which, because of its analyticity and necessity, avoids the need for metaethical speculation. Finally, ALN provides a standard that not only supplies the universalizable punch to avoid political subjectivism, but does so in a conventional manner. Thus, ALN does not require a moral or modal reality as truth-making characteristics. Rather, it makes what is legally valuable or disvaluable dependent upon empirically verifiable facts that are legally relevant.

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Author:   S Zinaich Jr.
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.313kg
ISBN:  

9781498598811


ISBN 10:   1498598811
Pages:   206
Publication Date:   21 December 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Preface Introduction 1 The Ancient Greek period (429 B.C.–180 A.D.) 2 The Scholastic Period (1265–1625) 3 The Enlightenment: Hobbes, Pufendorf, Locke and Hume 4 The Counter-Enlightenment Period and Romanticism (1770–1870) 5 Austin, Hart, and Dworkin 6 Toward a Theory of Legal Naturalism Bibliography Index About the Author

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Samuel Zinaich succeeds in formulating an approach to judicial interpretation that transcends limitations of both moral subjectivity and classic positivism. His arguments merit the attention of scholars in philosophy, legal theory, and the history of political thought. -- Frank J. Colucci, Author of Justice Kennedy's Jurisprudence: The Full and Necessary Meaning of Liberty


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S. Zinaich Jr. is associate professor in the Department of History and Philosophy at Purdue University Northwest.

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