{"product_id":"analytical-legal-naturalism-9781498598798","title":"Analytical Legal Naturalism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 universalizabl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 The Ancient Greek period (429 B.C.–180 A.D.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2 The Scholastic Period (1265–1625)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3 The Enlightenment: Hobbes, Pufendorf, Locke and Hume\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4 The Counter-Enlightenment Period and Romanticism (1770–1870)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5 Austin, Hart, and Dworkin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6 Toward a Theory of Legal Naturalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Author","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040879247703,"sku":"9781498598798","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498598798.jpg?v=1750948154","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/analytical-legal-naturalism-9781498598798","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}