Philosophy of Law

Author: Liu Riming
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: This book primarily examines, reflects on, and questions law or rights, especially modern law or modern rights, from a philosophical perspective, hence the term "jurisprudence." The entire book revolves around the core and starting point of law or rights, particularly modern law or modern rights, focusing on issues such as their value, essence, theoretical significance, historical development, and historical limitations. It adopts a combined approach of jurisprudential history and jurisprudential theory to explore the fundamental and important issues of jurisprudence. In summary, it mainly covers six levels of content: by analyzing the relationship between law and economics, religion, morality, and power, it explores the value of law and its significance for human life; it analyzes the important intellectual legacy of ancient and medieval natural law thought for Western modern natural law philosophy; through the analysis of the jurisprudential thought of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, and others, it reveals the metaphysical construction path and completion process of modern law; it argues for the sociological basis of Marx's critique of the metaphysics of law, clarifies the main achievements, two boundaries, and practical significance of Marx's jurisprudential critique theory; it explores the theoretical foundation, theoretical characteristics, theoretical significance, and flaws of analytical positivism jurisprudence; and it analyzes the contemporary trends and main problems of Western jurisprudence.