Rationality, social action, and moral judgment /

The isolation of law as a discipline has ensured that the theoretical preoccupations of legal scholars have remained insulated from the social sciences. But the concept of law and its relationship to morality is of crucial significance to social theory, and this impressive book examines some of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Toddington, Stuart
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©1993.
Series:	Edinburgh law and society series.
Subjects:	Ethics. Sociology > Philosophy. Judgment (Ethics) Morale. Sociologie > Philosophie. Jugement (Morale) ethics (philosophy) Ethics Sociology > Philosophy Rechtssoziologie Verstehende Soziologie Rationaliteit. Ethiek. Law > Philosophy. Sociological jurisprudence. Social sciences > Philosophy. Social action. Rationalism. Natural law
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

1. Social Science, Objectivity and Values
2. The Logic of Verstehen
3. The Limits of Verstehen
4. Evaluation and Description
5. Evaluation and Explanation
6. The Practically Reasonable Point of View
7. The Presuppositions of Communication
8. Isolation, Communication and Co-operation
9. Purposivity and Morality
Epilogue: Principle and Method.