Rational Decision

by Carl Friedrich (Editor)

Overview

To a historian the most interesting thing about decisions is the fact that everyone talks about them. No one interested in social ideas can fail to notice how large a part the word "decision" has come to play in the vocabulary of moral and political discourse. It meets one on every page. Inevitably one asks, "Why?" Why is there so much talk of decisions and of those who are said to make them? Are there any ideological reasons for it?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351494823
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/05/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	471 KB

About the Author

Carl Friedrich

Table of Contents

I: General Issues of Rational Decision; 1: Decisionism; 2: Decisionism and Separatism in Social Philosophy; 3: Logics of Rationality in Unanimous Decisionmaking; 4: Some Limitations on Rationality; II: Law As Decision-Making; 5: The Limited Rationality of Law; 6: The Separation of Legal and Moral Decisions; 7: Reason in Legislative Decisions; III: Judicial Decisions And Their Rationality; 8: Rationality in Judicial Decisions; 9: The Place of Practical Reason in Judicial Decision; 10: Political Privacy, the Courts, and the Worlds of Reason and of Life; 11: When the Supreme Court Subordinates Judicial Reason to Legislation; IV: Historical Reflections; 12: On Rereading Machiavelli and Althusius:; 13: Rationality and Representation in Burke’s “Bristol Speech”; 14: Rational Decisions and Intrinsic Valuations; 15: Rationality of Value Judgments; 16: Some Limitations on Rationality: A Comment