{"product_id":"laws-meaning-of-life-philosophy-religion-darwin-and-the-legal-person-paperback","title":"Law's Meaning of Life: Philosophy, Religion, Darwin and the Legal Person - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNgaire Naffine\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe perennial question posed by the philosophically-inclined lawyer is \"What is law?\" or perhaps \"What is the nature of law?\" This book poses an associated (but no less fundamental) question about law which has received much less attention in the legal literature. This question is: \"Who is law for?\" Whenever people go to law, they are judged for their suitability as legal persons. They are given or refused rights and duties on the basis of ideas about who matters. These ideas are basic to legal-decision making. They form the intellectual and moral underpinning of legal thought. They help to determine whether law is essentially for rational human beings, or whether it also speaks to and for human infants, adults with impaired reasoning, the comatose, fetuses, and even animals. Are these the right kind of beings to enter legal relationships and so become legal persons? Are they considered sufficiently rational, sacred, or simply human? Is law meant for them? This book reveals and evaluates the type of thinking that goes into these fundamental legal and metaphysical determinations about who should be capable of bearing legal rights and duties. It identifies and analyzes four influential ways of thinking about legal persons, each with its own metaphysical suppositions. One approach derives from rationalist philosophy, a second from religion, a third from evolutionary biology, while the fourth is strictly legalistic and so endeavors to eschew metaphysics altogether. The book offers a clear, coherent, and critical account of these complex moral and intellectual processes entailed in the making of legal persons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNgaire Naffine is Professor of Law at the University of Adelaide, Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 206\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51791838183712,"sku":"9781841138664","price":107.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/46de84231ee02760cd781948bab6d004.webp?v=1780691559","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/laws-meaning-of-life-philosophy-religion-darwin-and-the-legal-person-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}