Philosophy in the development of law / by Pierre de Tourtoulon ; translated by Martha McC. Read ; with an editorial preface by Morris R. Cohen and an introduction by Andrew A. Bruce.

New York : The Macmillan Company, 1922.

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Law -- Philosophy.

Jurisprudence.

Book I : Teleology in the history of law

Introductory chapter - Object and scope of this work

I. Metaphysical teleology

II. Human teleology. Book II : Causality in the history of law

I. The idea of cause

II. Biology and the law

III. Race and the law

IV. Selection in and through the law

V. Social psychology and the law

VI. Psychological elements of the law

VII. Law and the emotional life

VIII. Law and the intellectual life

IX. The diseases of legal thinking

X. The rational element in law: (a) analysis; (b) definition

XI. The rational element in law (continued): (c) analogy; (d) construction; (e) fiction

XII. The higher orders of juridical thought

XIII. Scientific or "pure" law

XIV. Law and metaphysical thought

XV. Law and life. Book III

I. Determinism and the idea of law

II. Evolution. transformation. progress

III. Chance.

This volume, designed to figure as the closing one of the Modem Legal Philosophy Series, is a translation of Professor Tourtoulon's "Les principes philosophiques de l'histoire du Droit." A first instalment of that work was published in French (Payot & Cie, Lausanne, Paris) in 1908 (Book I, and Book II, Chaps. I-VII); the completed publication did not take place till 1919. - extract from editorial preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Principes philosophiques de l'histoire du droit.

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