{"product_id":"9781509947720","title":"Agency, Morality and Law (European Academy of Legal Theory Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow does law possess the normative force it requires to direct our actions?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book argues that this seemingly innocuous question is of central importance to the philosophy of law and, by extension, of the very concept of law itself. It advances a position grounded in the secular natural law tradition, and in doing so addresses the two success criteria for this position head on: \n\u003cbr\u003eFirstly, that commitment to the existence of a supreme moral principle is required; \n\u003cbr\u003eSecondly, that any supreme moral principle must be identifiable through human reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book argues that these conditions are met by Alan Gewirth's Principle of Generic Consistency (PGC), which - through a dialectically necessary argument - locates the existence of universally applicable moral norms in the concept of agency. Given the very purpose of law is to guide action, legal norms must be located in a unified hierarchy of practical reason. It follows that, if law is to succeed in claiming to be capable of guiding our action, moral permissibility with reference to the PGC is a necessary condition of a rule's legal validity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis strong theory of natural law is defended throughout, both against moral sceptics and positions within contemporary legal positivism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hart Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48860786262251,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":109.78,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781509947720-1.jpg?v=1781685896","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781509947720","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}