Norrie, Alan W. (2017) Justice and the slaughter bench : essays on law's broken dialectic. Abingdon ; New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781138955110

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Abstract

In this follow-up to Law and the Beautiful Soul, Alan Norrie addresses the split between legal and ethical judgment. Shaped by history, law’s formalism both eschews and requires ethics. The first essays consider legal form in its practical aspect, and the ethical problems encountered (‘law’s architectonic’). The later essays look at the complex underlying relation between law and ethics (‘law’s constellation’). In Hegel’s philosophy, legal and ethical judgment are brought together in a rational totality. Here, the synthesis remains unachieved, the dialectic systematically ‘broken’. These essays cover such issues as criminal law’s ‘general part’, homicide reform, self-defence, euthanasia, and war guilt. They interrogate legal problems, consider law’s method, and its place in the social whole. The analysis of law’s historicity, its formalism and its relation to ethics contributes importantly to central questions in law, legal theory and criminal justice.

Item Type:	Book
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law
Journal or Publication Title:	Justice and the Slaughter Bench
Publisher:	Routledge
Place of Publication:	Abingdon ; New York
ISBN:	9781138955110
Official Date:	7 September 2017
Dates:	Date Event 7 September 2017 Published
Number of Pages:	222
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Description:	1st edition
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