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Legal Philosophy from Plato to Hegel

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Huntington Cairns
2019
Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
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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.

Table of Contents

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Cover

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Half Title

pp. i-ii

Title Page

pp. iii

Copyright

pp. iv

Dedication

pp. v-vi

Epigraph

pp. vii-viii

Preface

pp. ix-xii

Contents

pp. xiii-xvi

I. Philosophy As Jurisprudence

pp. 1-28

II. Plato

pp. 29-76

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

X. Locke

pp. 335-361

XI. Hume

pp. 362-389

XII. Kant

pp. 390-463

XIII. Fichte

pp. 464-502

XIV. Hegel

pp. 503-550

XV. Conclusion: Jurisprudence As Philosophy

pp. 551-568

Index of Proper Names

pp. 569-575

Index of Subjects

pp. 576-583
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