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The Fox Knows Many Things, the Greeks said, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. In his most comprehensive work Ronald Dworkin argues that value in all its forms is one big thing: that what truth is, life means, morality requires, and justice demands are different aspects of the same large question. He develops original theories on a great variety of issues very rarely considered in the same book: moral skepticism, literary, artistic, and historical interpretation, free will, ancient moral theory, being good and living well, liberty, equality, and law among many other topics. What we think about any one of these must stand up, eventually, to any argument we find compelling about the rest. --, Skepticism in all its formsùphilosophical, cynical, or postmodernùthreatens that unity. The Galilean revolution once made the theological world of value safe for science. But the new republic gradually became a new empire: the modern philosophers inflated the methods of physics into a totalitarian theory of everything. They invaded and occupied all the honorificsùreality, truth, fact, ground, meaning, knowledge, and beingùand dictated the terms on which other bodies of thought might aspire to them, and skepticism has been the inevitable result, We need a new revolution. We must make the world of science safe for value. --Book Jacket.
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This book explains the purpose and remit of this important remedy and goes through statute and case law to illustrate when a declaratory judgment can be granted. It highlights the advantages of using declaratory proceedings, shows how to bring a case before the court, and explains the jurisdiction of the High Court, county courts and tribunals to grant declarations. Detailed examination of who is entitled to bring proceedings for declaratory relief - both claimant and defendant - is included, together with a comparative study of the use of the declaratory process in Scotland
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Habeas corpus is everyone's 'get out of jail free' card. It is the legal remedy ensuring a person's release from prison or any other form of custody when the detention cannot be justified in law. This volume provides in-depth and critical analysis of the law behind this vital protection of liberty., Covers a topic of great importance: the liberty of the individual is a fundamental right and essential to the rule of law Habeas corpus is the only remedy directly applicable to a human right Provides a complete and up-to-date statement of the law Thoroughly explores the background and principles, together with practice and procedure, with sample forms, fully set out for the practitioner Completely updated to reflect significant developments in the case law and the literature since the last edition in 1989 One new chapter devotes special attention to habeas corpus and fundamental rights, looking in particular at the Human Rights Act 1998, the European Convention on Human Rights and also the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Another new chapter examines first principles and the evolution of judicial review and its relationship to habeas corpus For the first time, the book will include sample forms for practitioners in an extended section on practice and procedure.