Law's meaning of life : (Record no. 17454)
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| fixed length control field | 02365nam a22002051i 4500 |
| 005 - DATE & TIME | |
| control field | 20220507134745.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 140929s2009 enk ob 001 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - ISBN | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781472564658 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | NLUO |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Naffine, Ngaire, |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Law's meaning of life : |
| Sub Title | philosophy, religion, Darwin, and the legal person |
| Medium | [electronic resource] / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | by Ngaire Naffine. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Pages | 1 online resource (xv, 208 pages). |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Bloomsbury Pub Ebook |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-193) and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "The perennial question posed by the philosophically-inclined lawyer is 'What is law?' or perhaps 'What is the nature of law?' This book poses an associated, but no less fundamental, question about law which has received much less attention in the legal literature. It is: 'Who is law for?' Whenever people go to law, they are judged for their suitability as legal persons. They are given or refused rights and duties on the basis of ideas about who matters. These ideas are basic to legal-decision making; they form the intellectual and moral underpinning of legal thought. They help to determine whether law is essentially for rational human beings or whether it also speaks to and for human infants, adults with impaired reasoning, the comotose, foetuses and even animals. Are these the right kind of beings to enter legal relationships and so become legal persons. Are they, for example, sufficiently rational, or sacred or simply human? Is law meant for them? This book reveals and evaluates the type of thinking that goes into these fundamental legal and metaphysical determinations about who should be capable of bearing legal rights and duties. It identifies and analyses four influential ways of thinking about law's person, each with its own metaphysical suppositions. One approach derives from rationalist philosophy, a second from religion, a third from evolutionary biology while the fourth is strictly legalistic and so endeavours to eschew metaphysics altogether. The book offers a clear, coherent and critical account of these complex moral and intellectual processes entailed in the making of legal persons."--Bloomsbury Publishing. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT | |
| Subject | Juristic persons. |
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| Subject | Law |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://doi.org/10.5040/9781472564658?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | E-Book |
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