TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hanisch,Christoph
TI  - Why the Law Matters to You: Citizenship, Agency, and Public Identity 
T2  - Practical Philosophy ,
SN  - 9783110323955
AV  - K260 
U1  - 340.1 22/ger
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - Law
KW  - Essays
KW  - General Practice
KW  - Jurisprudence
KW  - Paralegals and Paralegalism
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Practical Guides
KW  - Reference
KW  - Identität
KW  - Legalität
KW  - Moderner Staat
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Political
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Identity
KW  - Legality
KW  - Modern State
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110324563
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110324563
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110324563/original
ER  -