In this Book
- Legal Philosophy from Plato to Hegel
- 1967
- Book
- Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
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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


- Half Title
- p. i
- Title Page
- p. iii
- Dedication
- p. v
- I. Philosophy As Jurisprudence
- pp. 1-28
- III. Aristotle
- pp. 77-126
- IV. Cicero
- pp. 127-162
- V. St. Thomas Aquinas
- pp. 163-204
- VI. Francis Bacon
- pp. 205-245
- VII. Hobbes
- pp. 246-271
- VIII. Spinoza
- pp. 272-294
- IX. Leibniz
- pp. 295-334
- XIII. Fichte
- pp. 464-502
- XIV. Hegel
- pp. 503-550
- XV. Conclusion: Jurisprudence As Philosophy
- pp. 551-567
- Index of Proper Names
- pp. 569-575
- Index of Subjects
- pp. 576-583
Additional Information
ISBN
9781421433431
Related ISBN
9781421433448
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OCLC
1122733360
Launched on MUSE
2019-10-10
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
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