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Originally published in 1949. Huntington Cairns identifies the views that major Western philosophers took on law, the problems they considered significant about law, and the nature of the solutions they proposed. This book develops ideas discussed in Cairns' Law and the Social Sciences (1935) and Theory of Legal Science (1941). The object of these three volumes is the same: to construct the foundation of a theory of law that is the necessary antecedent to a possible jurisprudence. The inventory of philosophers that Cairns examines includes Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Aquinas, Hobbes, Spinoza, and Hegel.

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I. Philosophy as Jurisprudence
II. Plato
III. Aristotle
IV. Cicero
V. Aquinas
VI. Francis Bacon
VII. Hobbes
VIII. Spinoza
IX. Leibniz
X. Locke
XI. Hume
XII. Kant
XIII. Fichte
XIV. Hegel
XV. Jurisprudence as Philosophy
Index of Proper Names
Index of Subjects

Legal Philosophy from Plato to Hegel

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 26 January 2020
      ISBN-13 9781421433424
      978-1421433424
      ISBN-10 1421433427
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      Methods, theory and philosophy of law Philosophy

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Originally published in 1949. Huntington Cairns identifies the views that major Western philosophers took on law, the problems they considered significant about law, and the nature of the solutions they proposed. This book develops ideas discussed in Cairns' Law and the Social Sciences (1935) and Theory of Legal Science (1941). The object of these three volumes is the same: to construct the foundation of a theory of law that is the necessary antecedent to a possible jurisprudence. The inventory of philosophers that Cairns examines includes Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Aquinas, Hobbes, Spinoza, and Hegel.

      Table of Contents

      I. Philosophy as Jurisprudence
      II. Plato
      III. Aristotle
      IV. Cicero
      V. Aquinas
      VI. Francis Bacon
      VII. Hobbes
      VIII. Spinoza
      IX. Leibniz
      X. Locke
      XI. Hume
      XII. Kant
      XIII. Fichte
      XIV. Hegel
      XV. Jurisprudence as Philosophy
      Index of Proper Names
      Index of Subjects

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