Hans Kelsen, Essays in Legal and Moral Philosophy

Essays on the Moral Philosophy of Mengzi

This volume joins an impressive series of collections of essays on classical Chinese thinkers, which have been consistently put together by Philip Ivanhoe and various collaborators: the collection on Zhuangzi (1996), Laozi (1999) and Xunzi (2000). The English-language scholarship of Mengzi (390–305 BCE) has flourished in recent years, and it is indeed high time for us to have such a splendid vo...

Essays on Moral Norms, Legal Unbundling and Franchise Systems

Moral Philosophy in Question:

3.1. The Underlying Problem of Moral Philosophy: Decoupling from the Life-Ground 3.2. The Conventional Tendency: Prescribing and Punishing Without Good Reason 3.3. The Professional Tendency: Moral Philosophy without Life Substance 3.4. Evaluating Social Value Systems: Off-Limits Even to Marxian Thought 3.5. What the Organism Wants: Desire Theory and its Fatal Flaw 3.6. The Paradox of Market Suc...

Free Will and Moral Responsibility in Islamic Philosophy

According to a common view among Muslim philosophers, a moral agent has free will if and only if she is able to do an action when she wants to and is able to avoid it when she wants otherwise. Implicit in this view is the Principle of Alternative Possibilities (PAP). On the other hand, according to this view, free will is dependent on requirements such as conception, judgement, tendency, decisi...

a critical research in hans kelsen's thoughts

hans kelsen is one of the most famous legal philosophers in the entire world that his legal thoughts have always been drawing attention and critics. pure theory of law, unity of law system and logic of law system are his the most famous theories . in this article, we put forward these theories and challenge them.