Philosophy of Law -- Series of Interdisciplinary Philosophy

Author: Liu Riming
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: This book primarily explores, 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 examine the fundamental and important questions of jurisprudence. In summary, the content mainly involves six levels:
By analyzing the relationships between law and economics, religion, morality, and power, it explores the value of law and its significance for human life;
It examines the important intellectual legacy of ancient and medieval natural law thought for Western modern natural law philosophy;
Through the analysis of the jurisprudential ideas 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, clarifying the main achievements, two boundaries, and practical significance of Marx's jurisprudential critique theory;
It explores the theoretical foundations, characteristics, significance, and flaws of analytical positivism in jurisprudence;
It analyzes the contemporary trends and main problems of Western jurisprudence.