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Daniel Mark (Author)

The Nature of Law: Authority, Obligation, and the Common Good

1,Challenging the prevailing understanding of the authority of law, Daniel Mark offers a theory of moral obligation that is rooted both in command and in the law's orientation to the common good.When and why do we have an obligation to obey the law? Prevailing theories in the philosophy of law, starting with the work of H. L. A. Hart and Joseph Raz, fail to provide definitive answers regarding the nature of legal obligation. In this highly original and effective new work, Daniel Mark argues that there is a prima facie moral obligation to obey the law simply because it is the law. In Mark's view, the best concept of law--one that allows for the possibility of justified authority and obligation--defines law as a set of commands oriented to the common good. Legal obligation, he proposes, shares defining features with moral obligation and with religious obligation while aligning wholly with neither.This philosophically coherent view of legal obligation offers a viable framework for analyzing important and seemingly paradoxical puzzles about the law, such as why civil disobedience is punished as lawbreaking or why war-crimes trials for legal but immoral acts present a moral quandary. By ...

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (Author)

On the Divine Things and Their Revelation

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743-1829) both introduced and epitomized the great philosophical controv

Costantino Esposito (Author)

The New Nihilism: The Existential Crisis of Our Time

In this highly engaging book, Costantino Esposito argues that nihilism is not merely the