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Why the Law Matters to You : Citizenship, Agency, and Public Identity / Christoph Hanisch.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Practical Philosophy ; 16Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (267 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110323955
  • 9783110324563
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 340.1 22/ger
LOC classification:
  • K260
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: A Challenge for Citizenship -- Chapter 1: Kukathas’s Challenge to Contemporary Liberalism -- Chapter 2: The Liberal State and Liberal Citizens -- Chapter 3: Initial Ad Hominem Reply to Kukathas -- Part 2: Public Identity and Self-Constituting Action -- Chapter 4: Korsgaard’s Two Arguments -- Chapter 5: Public Actions and Public Identities -- Chapter 6: Clarification and Objections -- Part 3: Self-Constituting Action and the Law -- Chapter 7: Action and the Law -- Chapter 8: The Nature of Law Revisited -- Chapter 9: Reply to Kukathas -- Conclusion -- References
Summary: This book presents an answer to the question of why modern legal institutions and the idea of citizenship are important for leading a free life. The majority of views in political and legal philosophy regard the law merely as a useful instrument, employed to render our lives more secure and to enable us to engage in cooperate activities more efficiently. The view developed here defends a non-instrumentalist alternative of why the law matters. It identifies the law as a constitutive feature of our identities as citizens of modern states. The constitutivist argument rests on the (Kantian) assumption that a person’s practical identity (its normative self-conception as an agent) is the result of its actions. The law co-constitutes these identities because it maintains the external conditions that are necessary for the actions performed under its authority. Modern legal institutions provide these external prerequisites for achieving a high degree of individual self-constitution and freedom. Only public principles can establish our status as individuals who pursue their life plans and actions as a matter of right and not because others contingently happen to let us do so. The book thereby provides resources for a reply to anarchist challenges to the necessity of legal ordering.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: A Challenge for Citizenship -- Chapter 1: Kukathas’s Challenge to Contemporary Liberalism -- Chapter 2: The Liberal State and Liberal Citizens -- Chapter 3: Initial Ad Hominem Reply to Kukathas -- Part 2: Public Identity and Self-Constituting Action -- Chapter 4: Korsgaard’s Two Arguments -- Chapter 5: Public Actions and Public Identities -- Chapter 6: Clarification and Objections -- Part 3: Self-Constituting Action and the Law -- Chapter 7: Action and the Law -- Chapter 8: The Nature of Law Revisited -- Chapter 9: Reply to Kukathas -- Conclusion -- References

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This book presents an answer to the question of why modern legal institutions and the idea of citizenship are important for leading a free life. The majority of views in political and legal philosophy regard the law merely as a useful instrument, employed to render our lives more secure and to enable us to engage in cooperate activities more efficiently. The view developed here defends a non-instrumentalist alternative of why the law matters. It identifies the law as a constitutive feature of our identities as citizens of modern states. The constitutivist argument rests on the (Kantian) assumption that a person’s practical identity (its normative self-conception as an agent) is the result of its actions. The law co-constitutes these identities because it maintains the external conditions that are necessary for the actions performed under its authority. Modern legal institutions provide these external prerequisites for achieving a high degree of individual self-constitution and freedom. Only public principles can establish our status as individuals who pursue their life plans and actions as a matter of right and not because others contingently happen to let us do so. The book thereby provides resources for a reply to anarchist challenges to the necessity of legal ordering.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023)