Law, Reason, and Emotion

The book explores the role and importance of reason and emotion in justice and the law.

M. N. S. Sellers (Edited by)

9781108420761, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 December 2017

254 pages
23.5 x 15.7 x 1.7 cm, 0.49 kg

This book examines the role and importance of reason and emotion in justice and the law. Eight lawyers and philosophers of law consider law's basis in the universal human need for society, our innate sense of justice, and many other powerful inclinations and emotions, including the desire for fairness and even for law itself. Human beings are deeply social creatures, inspired by social and other emotions, which can ennoble, support, or undermine the law. Law gains legitimacy and effectiveness when reason recognizes and embraces human emotions for the benefit of society as a whole. This volume explores the power and purposes of reason and emotion in the law.

1. Introduction M. N. S. Sellers
2. Law, reason, and emotion M. N. S. Sellers
3. Law's emotions Robin West
4. The domestication of emotion András Sajó
5. Neuroscience, philosophy, and the foundations of legal justice Matthias Mahlmann
6. Rights, reason, and emotion Daniel Mendonca Bonnet
7. Law and honor Anthony Appiah
8. Interactive reason and law Ko Hasegawa
9. The wrath of reason Patricia Mindus.

Subject Areas: Law & society [LAQ], Jurisprudence & philosophy of law [LAB], Law [L], Philosophy [HP]