Author

Publication

2020 - Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Word Count

56,250 words, Guess

Page Count

225 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-10110715703X
  • ISBN-139781107157033
  • Library of Congress Control Number2019032189
  • OCLC Control Number1111652966
  • Better World Books9781107157033
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Classifications

  • LCCK434.A7D85 2020
  • LCCK434.A7 D85 2020

Description

"A selective reading of these statements can suggest a picture according to which law is strictly identifiable with reason. As a corrective to such a one-sided intellectualist reading, I seek to place the rationalism of Aristotelian nomos in its broader political context. This requires engagement with Aristotle's acknowledgment of the law's necessary use of force and constraint over resistant passions in its attempt to guide citizens towards a state of virtue or at least quasi-virtue"--

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