Law as Symbolic Form : Ernst Cassirer and the Anthropocentric View of Law

Law as Symbolic Form : Ernst Cassirer and the Anthropocentric View of Law

Author
Deniz Coskun
Publication Year
2007
Publisher
Springer
Language
English
Document Type
Book
Faculty / Subject Heading
Social Science

In this book we describe the rule of law as the reign of persuasion rather than the reign of force, and democracy as the reign by persuasion rather than the reign by force.


Keywords: Humanities, Social Science and Law / Ernst Cassirer / Law and the Humanities / Law as symbolic form / Legal philosophy / Legal theory / Plato / Human rights / Jurisprudence / Law