The Formal bases of law / by Giorgio Del Vecchio, translated by John Lisle.

Delanco, N.J. : Legal Classics Library, 2001

Special edition

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Jurisprudence.

Law -- Philosophy.

Part I: Philosophical presuppositions of the idea of law

I. Reason and necessity for a logical definition of law

II. Divergency in positive law and the sceptical conclusions based thereon

III. Idea of natural law

IV. Common elements of law

V. Legal growth

VI. Connection between law and historical conditions

VII. Consequences and limits of the relativity of law

VIII. Form and content of law. The position of the problem in the theory of knowledge.

IX. Value and significance of the logical form of law

X. Logical form of law opposed to juridical empiricism

XI. Logical form of law: conclusion. Critical and complementary notes

Part II: The concept of law

I. Human acts are subject to juridical criteria

II. Nature of the juridical criterion

III. Imperative quality of law

IV. Rights

V. Law and coercion

VI. Law and interests

Part III: The concept of nature and the principle of law

I. Preliminary considerations

II. Principle of causality and mechanical conception of nature

III. Appreciation of the end and metaphysical conception of nature

IV. Primacy of the ego over nature and the foundation of ethics

V. Deduction of the principle of law

VI. Some paralogisms touching the concept of nature in the philosophy of law

VII. Concept of nature in some systems of the philosophy of law

VIII. Conclusion. Naturalness of positive law and natural law.

lvii, 412 pages ; 22 cm