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Legal Philosophy
Types of philosophers:
Pre- Modern:
they focused on:
a) The common good (community) – rather than the individual
b) Their thinking focused on metaphysical/ religious beliefs
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Types of philosophers:
Pre- Modern:
they focused on:
a) The common good (community) – rather than the individual
b) Their thinking focused on metaphysical/ religious beliefs
c) They believed in natural law
Modern Philosophies
All focus on the individual rather than the community
a) Moderns:
they tried to replace religious belief with the scientific and rational
investigation of law.
They reject natural law as metaphysical nonsense that must be
replaced with a scientific method
They include:
- Social contractarians = Hobbes and Locke
- Legal positivism = Bentham, Austin and Hart
- American Realism
b) Late moderns:
realized that science alone couldn’t save mankind, they said that
values and principles also played a role in the law, but these values
and principles must be established rationally = they believe that
rational debate is needed about shared values (different from the
moderns)
They include:
- Dworkin
- Rawls
Post Moderns:
have the same idea of crisis, but don’t believe that the crisis can be
resolved by looking at universal values = they therefore criticized the
idea of a rational legal order and start looking at what the moderns
would call irrational modes of thinking
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They include:
- critical legal studies
- Feminists
They reject the individualism and rationalism of the moderns and
instead use deconstruction and other methods to criticize traditional
legal thinking
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