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Legal Philosophy from Plato to Hegel

Huntington Cairns

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Originally published in 1949. Huntington Cairns identifies the views that major Western philosophers took on law, the problems they considered significant about law, and the nature of the solutions they proposed. This book develops ideas discussed in Cairns' Law and the Social Sciences (1935) and Theory of Legal Science (1941). The object of these three volumes is the same: to construct the foundation of a theory of law that is the necessary antecedent to a possible jurisprudence. The inventory of philosophers that Cairns examines includes Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Aquinas, Hobbes, Spinoza...

Originally published in 1949. Huntington Cairns identifies the views that major Western philosophers took on law, the problems they considered significant about law, and the nature of the solutions they proposed. This book develops ideas discussed in Cairns' Law and the Social Sciences (1935) and Theory of Legal Science (1941). The object of these three volumes is the same: to construct the foundation of a theory of law that is the necessary antecedent to a possible jurisprudence. The inventory of philosophers that Cairns examines includes Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Aquinas, Hobbes, Spinoza, and Hegel.

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9
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602
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9781421433424
Table of Contents

I. Philosophy as Jurisprudence
II. Plato
III. Aristotle
IV. Cicero
V. Aquinas
VI. Francis Bacon
VII. Hobbes
VIII. Spinoza
IX. Leibniz
X. Locke
XI. Hume
XII. Kant
XIII. Fichte
XIV. Hegel
XV. Jurisprudence as

I. Philosophy as Jurisprudence
II. Plato
III. Aristotle
IV. Cicero
V. Aquinas
VI. Francis Bacon
VII. Hobbes
VIII. Spinoza
IX. Leibniz
X. Locke
XI. Hume
XII. Kant
XIII. Fichte
XIV. Hegel
XV. Jurisprudence as Philosophy
Index of Proper Names
Index of Subjects

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Huntington Cairns

Huntington Cairns served as the secretary, treasurer, and general counsel of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. In addition to his work as a lawyer, he wrote and edited books on poetry, anthropology, art, and H. L. Mencken.