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Formal Bases of Law (Modern Legal Philosophy)
Formal Bases of Law - Modern Legal Philosophy Author:Giorgio Del Vecchio Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME By Sir John Macdonelli This volume contains the translation of three of the chief works of a distinguished, prolific and many-sid... more »ed Italian jurist, some of whose works have been translated into several languages, and have exercised, and are exercising, no small influence. At certain points the three overlap. At several points they seem to touch many other questions and matters than those which fall within the philosophy of law even in the author's comprehensive view of it. In seeking firm foundations Professor Del Vecchio may seem to compass the whole field of philosophy. But there is a certain unity in all three works. They help to elucidate each other, and they deal instructively with fundamental questions of jurisprudence. For some years there has been in Italy remarkable activity and interest in regard to those questions; a veritable juridical "Risorgimento"; activity which at first and for a time manifested itself in translations from German legal literature and in applications or restatements of the teaching of Kant or Hegel, but which, reverting to Vico, stimulated by Gioberti, Rosmini and other earlier native thinkers, and concerning itself at first hand with the great problems of jurisprudence, has of late produced a rich harvest of original investigators. All the workers in this field ask, and for the most part independently answer, questions which most English and American jurists pass over and the obtrusion ofwhich they as a rule resent. Knowing comparatively little of a very large literature, I have no right to speak with much confidence of the general characteristics of these writers. It is enough to say that they are not compilers; that they do not in merely mechanical fashion collect facts and note similarities. They seek for the ...« less
ISBN-13: 9780678045213 ISBN-10: 0678045216 Pages:644 Edition:New issue of 1914 ed Rating: