Moral Foundations of Constitutional Thought (eBook)

Current Problems, Augustinian Prospects

Graham Walker (Autor)

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2014
200 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6144-6 (ISBN)

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Graham Walker boldly recasts the debate over issues like constitutional interpretation and judicial review, and challenges contemporary thinking not only about specifically constitutional questions but also about liberalism, law, justice, and rights. Walker targets the "skeptical" moral nihilism of leading American judges and writers, on both the political left and right, charging that their premises undermine the authority of the Constitution, empty its moral words of any determinate meaning, and make nonsense of ostensibly normative theories. But he is even more worried about those who desire to conduct constitutional government by direct recourse to an authoritative moral truth. Augustine's political ethics, Walker argues, offers a solution--a way to embrace substantive goodness while relativizing its embodiment in politics and law.Walker sees in Augustinian theory an understanding of the rule of law that prevents us from mistaking law for moral truth. Pointing out how the tensions in that theory resonate with the normative ambivalence of America's liberal constitutionalism, he shows that Augustine can provide successful but decidedly nonliberal grounds for the artifices and compromises characteristic of law in a liberal state.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Accountability • Aestheticism • Agency (philosophy) • Christian realism • coherentism • Consideration • Constitutionalism • constitutional law • Constitutional theory • Contingency (Philosophy) • Conventionalism • Correspondence theory of truth • Critical Legal Studies • Deontological Ethics • Epistemology • Ethical Dilemma • ethics • Existence • Faith and rationality • First principle • Foundationalism • Free will in theology • Fundamental Rights • Good and evil • good faith • Historicism • idealism • Immanence • Intelligibility (philosophy) • Interpretivism (legal) • Judicial Activism • judicial deference • Judicial restraint • Law's Empire • Legal Positivism • Legal Realism • Liberalism • Loyalty • Moral absolutism • Moral Authority • moral imperative • Morality • Morality and religion • moral nihilism • Moral Politics (book) • Moral Realism • Moral Reasoning • Moral skepticism • Natural and legal rights • Natural Law • Natural order (philosophy) • Natural Theology • normative • Objectivity (philosophy) • On Liberty • Ontology • On Truth • On Virtue • original intent • pelagianism • Philosophy • Philosophy of Law • Political Ethics • Political Philosophy • Positivism • Practical reason • Precedent • premise • Presumption (canon law) • Quietism (philosophy) • Rationalism • Rationality • Realism (international relations) • Reality • Realpolitik • reason • Reflective equilibrium • Relativism • Religion • Righteousness • rights • Rule of Law • self-love • skepticism • Solipsism • Subjectivism • Taking Rights Seriously • The Concept of Law • Theology • theory • Theory of Justification • The Philosopher • Thomas Hobbes • Thomism • Thought • Toleration • Triumphalism • Universality (philosophy) • Utilitarianism • Value (ethics)
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6144-6 / 1400861446
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6144-6 / 9781400861446