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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Logic of Autonomy: Law Morality and Autonomous Reasoning by Jan-r Sieckmann
Autonomy is the central idea of modern practical philosophy. Autonomy seems to require that the validity of norms depends on recognition - that their addressees recognize these norms to be valid. But how can one be bound by norms whose validity depends on their being recognized as valid by their addressees? The questions of how autonomous morality and the authoritative character of law can be understood present persistent puzzles that have been widely discussed but still await a satisfactory solution.This book presents an analysis of the idea of autonomy as self-legislation and its consequences for law and morality. It links the idea of autonomy with the idea of the balancing of normative arguments develops a notion of normative arguments as distinct from normative judgments and statements and explains claims to correctness and objectivity that are found in normative discourse. Offering an alternative to Kantian notions of autonomy it connects theses regarding the logic of norms the structure of balancing human and fundamental rights legal validity legal interpretation and the relations among legal systems offering a theory that is undergirded by the mutual relations that exist between and among its parts as well as through the relations that it bears to other theories.