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020			_a9781472563743
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100	1		_aDelacroix, Sylvie,
245	1	0	_aLegal norms and normativity : _ban essay in genealogy _h[electronic resource] / _cby Sylvie Delacroix.
300			_a1 online resource (xxiv, 218 pages).
500			_aBloomsbury Pub Ebook
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 207-215) and index.
520			_a"This book offers a 'genealogical' explanation of law's normativity. The term 'genealogical' conveys a commitment to a non-metaphysical type of enquiry. While it explains how law, as a normative phenomenon, comes about, it does not seek to ground law's normativity in anything but the context of social interaction giving rise to it. Legal normativity is brought about on a daily basis. Whether in revolutionary circumstances or in the quotidian need for judges, lawmakers or citizens to balance law's demands with those of morality or prudence, our ability to bind ourselves through law ultimately depends on our capacity to articulate a better way of living together, and to commit ourselves to it. These efforts of assessment and articulation depend, in turn, on our conception of normative agency. Assert the need to trace the truth of ethical judgments to some independent moral 'facts' conditioning their objectivity, and you will get a different understanding of what it is we are doing when we dispute law's authority in the name of moral values. Tracing the truth of moral judgements back to our own social practices not only affects the nature of disagreement; it also dramatically increases our responsibility when, as lawmakers, judges, or citizens we 'take the law into our own hands' and confront it with our moral expectations."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
650		0	_aLaw.
650		0	_aNatural law.
650		0	_aNormativity (Ethics)
650		0	_aSocial norms.
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.5040/9781472563743?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
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