Legal Rules, Moral Norms and Democratic Principles

Wojciechowski, Bartosz; Juchacz, Piotr W.; Cern, Karolina

Legal Rules, Moral Norms and Democratic Principles

by Bartosz Wojciechowski (Volume editor) Piotr W. Juchacz (Volume editor) Karolina Cern (Volume editor)

Theology & Philosophy

Series: Dia-Logos, Volume 15

Summary

The book tackles significant problems that each historian of law faces in the light of present decline of philosophical, ethical and ideological canons in the overall context of western civilization. The issues discussed in the book manifest themselves in the question whether the «democratic turn» is a real or just a virtue one. Democracy generally means governance by the people – but who are the people? What kind of governance by the people can be claimed as democratic – all of the various types that exist or only a single, chosen one? What – if any – is the normative issue of such a governance? Democracy, after all, is not a simple descriptive model of governance; it is deeply rooted in our preferences and hence normative patterns of conduct, which are not yet to be understood as the norm but rather as founding principles. Democracy is a thoroughly normative model. It is always as constructed and uttered in the picture of life at the same time.

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Pages: 366
Year: 2013
ISBN (PDF): 9783653021943
ISBN (Hardcover): 9783631640081
DOI: 10.3726/978-3-653-02194-3
Language: English
Publication date: 2013 (May)
Keywords: Human Rights Universal Ethics Global Law United Nation Philosophy of Law European Court of Human Rights Citizenship
Published: Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2013. 366 pp., 2 b/w ill.

Biographical notes

Bartosz Wojciechowski (Volume editor) Piotr W. Juchacz (Volume editor) Karolina Cern (Volume editor)

Bartosz Wojciechowski is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Łód´z (Poland) and a judge in the District Administrative Court. He has published and co-edited several books, most recently Philosophical Approach to the Interculturality of Criminal Law (2010). Piotr W. Juchacz is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Program Coordinator in the Center for Public Policy at Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna´n (Poland). He published two monographs: Deliberation – Democracy – Participation (2006) and Socrates. Philosophy in Action (2004). He also co-edited ten collected volumes. Karolina M. Cern is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Chair of Ethics, at Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna´n (Poland). She is an author of two monographs: The Conception of Time by Early Heidegger (2007); and together with E. Nowak Ethos in Public Life (2008). She also co-edited five collected volumes.

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