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Full-Text Articles in Economics
Cultural Liberty, Srijit Mishra
Human Development And Human Rights, Srijit Mishra
Human Development And Human Rights, Srijit Mishra
Srijit Mishra
This lecture discusses the relationship between Human Development and Human Rights
The Rise Of Planning In Industrial America, 1865-1914
The Rise Of Planning In Industrial America, 1865-1914
Richard Adelstein
How American firms grew very large after the Civil War, and how Americans responded to them.
Between “Metaphysics Of The Stone Age” And The “Brave New World”: H.L.A. Hart On The Law’S Assumptions About Human Nature, Péter Cserne
Between “Metaphysics Of The Stone Age” And The “Brave New World”: H.L.A. Hart On The Law’S Assumptions About Human Nature, Péter Cserne
Péter Cserne
This paper analyses H.L.A. Hart’s views on the epistemic character of the law’s assumptions about human behaviour, as articulated in Causation in the Law and Punishment and Responsibility. Hart suggests that the assumptions behind legal doctrines typically combine common sense factual beliefs, moral intuitions, and philosophical theories of earlier ages with sound moral principles, and empirical knowledge. An important task of legal theory is to provide a ‘rational and critical foundation’ for these doctrines. This does not only imply conceptual clarification in light of an epistemic ideal of objectivity but also involves legal theorists in ‘enlightenment’ about empirical facts, ‘demystification’ …