A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence is the first-ever multivolume treatment of the issues in legal philosophy and general jurisprudence, from both a theoretical and a historical perspective. The work is aimed at jurists as well as legal and practical philosophers. Edited by the renowned theorist Enrico Pattaro and his team, this book is a classical reference work that would be of great interest to legal and practical philosophers as well as to jurists and legal scholar at all levels. The work is divided The theoretical part (published in 2005), consisting of five volumes, covers the main topics of the contemporary debate; the historical part, consisting of six volumes (Volumes 6-8 published in 2007; Volumes 9 and 10, published in 2009; Volume 11 published in 2011 and volume 12 forthcoming in 2012/2013), accounts for the development of legal thought from ancient Greek times through the twentieth century. The entire set will be completed with an index.

Volume 1: The Law and the Right, a Reappraisal of the Reality that ought to be

by Enrico Pattaro

This work brings out and recovers the normative dimension of law, called "the reality that ought to be", placing within this reality the idea of what is right. Part I reconstructs the current as well as the traditional civil-law conception of the reality that ought to be and raises some critical theoretical issues. Part II introduces some basic concepts on language and behaviour and presents a conception of norms as beliefs. Part III aims to find explanations for the idea of a reality that ought to be. Part IV consists of inquiries focussed on Homeric epic, the natural-law school, and the normativistic view of positive law.

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This paperback edition of the first of the twelve volumes of A Treatises of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence, serves as an introduction to the first-ever multivolume treatment of all important issues in legal philosophy and general jurisprudence, consisting of a five-volume theoretical part and a six-volume historical part. The theoretical part covers the main topics of contemporary debate. The historical volumes trace the development of legal thought from ancient Greek times through the twentieth century. All volumes are edited by the renowned theorist Enrico Pattaro.

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The Reality That Ought to Be: Problems and Critical Issues.- A First Glance.- Dualism and Interaction Between the Reality that Ought to Be and the Reality that is: Validity as a Pineal Gland.- Taking a Dive Into the Sources of Law.- The Problem of the Matrix.- The Reality That Ought to Be: A Monistic Perspective. Norms as Beliefs and as Motives of Behaviour.- The Motives of Human Behaviour.- Norms As Beliefs.- How Norms Proliferate in Human Brains.- Family Portraits. Law as Interference in the Motives of Behaviour.- No Law Without Norms.- But Norms are Not Enough. the Interaction Between Language and Motives of Behaviour.- The Law in Force: an Ambiguous Intertwining of Normativeness and Organised Power.- In Search of Confirming Others.- The Reality that Ought to Be as Fate.- What is Right in Homeric Epic.- What is Right, What Is Just, Ratio As Type: Sanctus Thoma Docet.- The Law and What is Right. Hans Kelsen Under Suspicion.- Nature and Culture.- What Does Foundations Mean?.- What Does Foundations Mean?.- The Explanandum: What is Law?.- The Explanandum: What is Law?.- Extra-Legal Foundations of LawVariations on Legally External Foundations.- Extra-Legal Foundations of LawVariations on Legally External Foundations.- Internal Foundations of Law.- Internal Foundations of Law.- Anti-Foundationalism.- Anti-Foundationalism.- General Tendencies.- General Tendencies.- Problems of Explanation.- Problems of Explanation.- Summary.- Summary.- Legislation.- Legislation.- Precedent.- Precedent.- Custom.- Custom.- Delegation.- Delegation.- Constitutions.- Constitutions.- Sources of Law in the Civil Law.- Sources of Law in the Civil Law.- International Law.- International Law.- Authority.- Authority.- Legal Doctrine and Legal Theory.- Legal Doctrine and Legal Theory.- Particular Legal Doctrine.- Particular Legal Doctrine.- Criticism and Defence of Legal Doctrine.- Criticism and Defence of Legal Doctrine.- Law And Morality.- Law And Morality.- Coherence in Legal Doctrine.- Coherence in Legal Doctrine.- Metatheory and Ontology for Legal Doctrine.- Metatheory and Ontology for Legal Doctrine.- Conclusions.- Conclusions.- Legal Reasoning and Practical Rationality.- Practical Rationality.- Basic Forms of Reasoning.- The Doxification of Practical Reasoning.- Rationalisation, Reflexivity, Universality.- Bounded Rationality: Cognitive Delegation.- Bounded Rationality: Factors.- Preference-Based Reasoning: Rules.- Preference-Based Reasoning: Factors.- Multi-Agent Practical Reasoning.- Collective Intentionality.- Collective Cognition and Dialogues.- Cognitive and Legal Bindingness.- The Foundation of Legal Bindingness.- Legal Logic.- Law and Logic.- Classical Logic and the Law.- Actions.- Deontic Notions.- Negation, Permission, and Completeness.- Obligational Concepts.- Normative Conditionals and Legal Inference.- Varieties of Normative Conditionals.- Potestative Concepts.- Proclamations.- Proclamative Power.- Normative Texts and Sources of Law.- Argumentation Frameworks.- Argument Logic.- Cases and Theory Construction.- Theory-Based Dialectics.- Conclusion.- Conclusion.