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Laws: A. Laws are rules created and enforced by governments to regulate behavior, protect people's rights, and promote order and justice in society. - B. Laws of nature are fundamental principles that describe how the universe works. They are universal and unchanging. - C. The status of laws in the individual sciences is controversial, since they may only describe regularities. See also Natural laws, Regularities, Principles._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Lon Fuller on Laws - Dictionary of Arguments
Rawls I 59 Laws/substantial justice/formal justice/Lon Fuller/Rawls: some authors, including Lon Fuller(1) believe that substantive and formal justice tend to go hand in hand, and therefore at least extreme unjust institutions are rare and not consistently maintained. >Justice, >Injustice, >Society, >Law, >Institutions. 1. L. Fuller, The Morality of Law, New Haven, 1964, ch. IV._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Fuller, Lon Rawl I J. Rawls A Theory of Justice: Original Edition Oxford 2005 |