The Morality of Law; Revised Edition,9780300010701

The Morality of Law; Revised Edition

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Edition: Revised
ISBN13: 9780300010701
ISBN10: 0300010702
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 1965-09-10
Publisher(s): Yale University Press
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Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition v
Preface to the First Edition vii
The Two Moralities
3(30)
The Moralities of Duty and of Aspiration
5(4)
The Moral Scale
9(4)
The Vocabulary of Morals and the Two Moralities
13(2)
Marginal Utility and the Morality of Aspiration
15(4)
Reciprocity and the Morality of Duty
19(8)
Locating the Pointer on the Moral Scale
27(3)
Rewards and Penalties
30(3)
The Morality That Makes Law Possible
33(62)
Eight Ways to Fail to Make Law
33(5)
The Consequences of Failure
38(3)
The Aspiration toward Perfection in Legality
41(3)
Legality and Economic Calculation
44(2)
The Generality of Law
46(3)
Promulgation
49(2)
Retroactive Laws
51(12)
The Clarity of Laws
63(2)
Contradictions in the Laws
65(5)
Laws Requiring the Impossible
70(9)
Constancy of the Law through Time
79(2)
Congruence between Official Action and Declared Rule
81(10)
Legality as a Practical Art
91(4)
The Concept of Law
95(57)
Legal Morality and Natural Law
96(10)
Legal Morality and the Concept of Positive Law
106(12)
The Concept of Science
118(4)
Objections to the View of Law Taken Here
122(11)
Hart's The Concept of Law
133(12)
Law as a Purposeful Enterprise and Law as a Manifested Fact of Social Power
145(7)
The Substantive AIMS of Law
152(35)
The Neutrality of the Law's Internal Morality toward Substantive Aims
153(2)
Legality as a Condition of Efficacy
155(2)
Legality and Justice
157(2)
Legal Morality and Laws Aiming at Alleged Evils That Cannot Be Defined
159(3)
The View of Man Implicit in Legal Morality
162(6)
The Problem of the Limits of Effective Legal Action
168(2)
Legal Morality and the Allocation of Economic Resources
170(7)
Legal Morality and the Problem of Institutional Design
177(1)
Institutional Design as a Problem of Economizing
178(3)
The Problem of Defining the Moral Community
181(3)
The Minimum Content of a Substantive Natural Law
184(3)
A Reply to Critics
187(58)
The Structure of Analytical Legal Positivism
191(6)
Is Some Minimum Respect for the Principles of Legality Essential to the Existence of a Legal System?
197(3)
Do the Principles of Legality Constitute an ``Internal Morality of Law''?
200(24)
Some Implications of the Debate
224(21)
Appendix: The Problem of the Grudge Informer 245(10)
Index 255

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