Rational Decision (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Friedrich, Carl

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

To a historian the most interesting thing about decisions is the fact that everyone talks about them. No one interested in social ideas can fail to notice how large a part the word "decision" has come to play in the vocabulary of moral and political discourse. It meets one on every page. Inevitably one asks, "Why?" Why is there so much talk of decisions and of those who are said to make them? Are there any ideological reasons for it?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351494830
• Artikelnr.: 48800486

Autorenporträt

Carl Friedrich

Inhaltsangabe

I: General Issues of Rational Decision
1: Decisionism
2: Decisionism and Separatism in Social Philosophy
3: Logics of Rationality in Unanimous Decisionmaking
4: Some Limitations on Rationality
II: Law As Decision-Making
5: The Limited Rationality of Law
6: The Separation of Legal and Moral Decisions
7: Reason in Legislative Decisions
III: Judicial Decisions And Their Rationality
8: Rationality in Judicial Decisions
9: The Place of Practical Reason in Judicial Decision
10: Political Privacy, the Courts, and the Worlds of Reason and of Life
11: When the Supreme Court Subordinates Judicial Reason to Legislation
IV: Historical Reflections
12: On Rereading Machiavelli and Althusius:
13: Rationality and Representation in Burke's "Bristol Speech"
14: Rational Decisions and Intrinsic Valuations
15: Rationality of Value Judgments
16: Some Limitations on Rationality: A Comment