The limits of reason : indeterminacy in law, education, and morality / John A. Eisenberg.

A common perception of modern liberal societies holds that it is possible to bring about social change through rational knowledge--knowledge of ourselves, the conditions we live in, and the laws and principles governing people and society. As attractive as such a view may be, in its scope and simpli...

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Main Author: Eisenberg, John A., 1929-2010
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, ©1992.
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Table of Contents:
  • Reason and control
  • The cognitive sciences: How to ensnare the mind
  • The moral self v. The institutional self
  • Moral education today: Control through reason
  • The nature of law
  • Las as a system of rules
  • Law as a historical process
  • Law in itself.