TY  - BOOK
N2  - Ambitious legal thinkers have become mesmerized by moral philosophy, believing that great figures in the philosophical tradition hold the keys to understanding and improving law and justice and even to resolving the most contentious issues of constitutional law. They are wrong, contends Richard Posner in this book. Posner characterizes the current preoccupation with moral and constitutional theory as the latest form of legal mystification - an evasion of the real need of American law, which is for a greater understanding of the social, economic, and political facts out of which great legal controversies arise.
N2  - In pursuit of that understanding, Posner advocates a rebuilding of the law on the pragmatic basis of open-minded and systematic empirical inquiry and the rejection of cant and nostalgia - the true professionalism foreseen by Holmes a century ago.
AB  - Ambitious legal thinkers have become mesmerized by moral philosophy, believing that great figures in the philosophical tradition hold the keys to understanding and improving law and justice and even to resolving the most contentious issues of constitutional law. They are wrong, contends Richard Posner in this book. Posner characterizes the current preoccupation with moral and constitutional theory as the latest form of legal mystification - an evasion of the real need of American law, which is for a greater understanding of the social, economic, and political facts out of which great legal controversies arise.
AB  - In pursuit of that understanding, Posner advocates a rebuilding of the law on the pragmatic basis of open-minded and systematic empirical inquiry and the rejection of cant and nostalgia - the true professionalism foreseen by Holmes a century ago.
T1  - The problematics of moral and legal theory /
DA  - 1999.
CY  - Cambridge, Mass. :
AU  - Posner, Richard A.
CN  - KF380
PB  - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
PP  - Cambridge, Mass. :
PY  - 1999.
ID  - 1408852
KW  - Law
KW  - Law
KW  - Sociological jurisprudence.
KW  - Law and ethics.
KW  - Droit et morale.
KW  - Sociologie juridique.
KW  - Droit
KW  - Law and ethics.
KW  - Law
KW  - Law
KW  - Sociological jurisprudence.
KW  - Moralisme.
KW  - Rechtstheorie.
KW  - Pragmatisme.
KW  - Dret i ètica.
KW  - Sociologia jurídica.
KW  - Law and ethics.
KW  - Sociological jurisprudence.
KW  - Droit et morale.
KW  - Sociologie juridique.
SN  - 0674707710
SN  - 9780674707719
TI  - The problematics of moral and legal theory /
ER  -