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[Tomain] ✓ Creon's Ghost Law Justice and the Humanities ↠ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Creon's Ghost Law Justice and the Humanities Creon's Ghost demonstrates that the humanities can both illuminate our understanding of contemporary problems and that "classic" texts can be read alongside jurisprudential texts, thus enriching our understanding of and appreciation for law.. Today, such issues as intelligent design in school curricula, same-sex marriage, and faith-based government grants are all examples of the interaction between man's law and some other set of moral principles. As these debates are considered in this
| Title | : | Creon's Ghost Law Justice and the Humanities |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.39 (924 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B007K4N0VA |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 344 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-20 |
| Language | : | English |
Tomain has conducted innumerable seminars in law and the humanities as a part of post-J.D. As the founder of the Justice Institute for the Legal Profession, Prof. Joseph Tomain is Dean Emeritus and the Wilbert and Helen Ziegler Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. The Justice Institute offers an annual seminar under the auspices of the Ohio State Supreme Court and provides programming in law and the humanities to various pr
As a result, he is able to call our attention to continuities and discontinuities in the ways societies have confronted the tension between what the state asks of us and what our moral scruples demand from us. Creon's Ghost is an indispensable contribution to the great conversation-- in law, in literature, and in the humanities--about what it means to be human." --Lawrence Joseph, St. Joseph Tomain has a rare gift for bringing high theory to the lowly and difficult cases to which it should apply. Issues are developed historically from Plato, Aquinas, and Machiavelli on to Austin, Judge Holmes and into the twentieth century concluding with St
Creon's Ghost demonstrates that the humanities can both illuminate our understanding of contemporary problems and that "classic" texts can be read alongside jurisprudential texts, thus enriching our understanding of and appreciation for law.. Today, such issues as intelligent design in school curricula, same-sex marriage, and faith-based government grants are all examples of the interaction between man's law and some other set of moral principles. As these debates are considered in this book, the author uses texts such as Antigone and Plato's Republic and pairs them with the most important jurisprudence texts of the 20th century to explore different approaches to the contemporary conflict or court ruling under consideration. Creon's Ghost examines the enduring problem of the relationship between man's law and a "higher" law from the perspective of core humanities texts and through discussion of hotly deba
"Too Expensve" according to WDDFCJ. I have been a Judge for 18 years and this looks like a very interesting book. It got a good review in the March, 2011 issue of Law and Society Review. However, it is priced so that it will be purchased only by law libraries. In this age of on-demand and electronic publishing, I have no clue why this book is priced at $85. Maybe the publisher could re-read Adam Smith and David Ricardo and reconsider their pri
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