caa a22 4500 388050829 CHVBK 20180307125053.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199803 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S1352325200000896 doi S1352325200000896 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S1352325200000896 Raz Joseph Balliol College Postema on Law's Autonomy and Public Practical Reasons: A Critical Comment [Elektronische Daten] [Joseph Raz] Postema's article discusses, lucidly and probingly, a central jurisprudential idea, which he calls the autonomy thesis. In its general form it is shared by many writers who otherwise support divergent accounts of the nature of law. It is, according to Postema, a thesis that is meant to account for a core idea, that the law's "defining aim is to ... unify public political judgment and coordinate social interaction.” In some form or another this core idea is probably supported by Postema himself. However, in this article his concern is to criticize what he takes to be the widespread belief that it is explained by the autonomy thesis. The autonomy thesis is flawed and must be rejected. In arguing to that conclusion he succumbs to one of the unattractive tendencies of contemporary legal and political philosophy, namely he does not discuss anyone's view, but a family of views. This allows one to construct one's target by selecting features from a variety of authors so that the combined picture is in fact no one's view, and all those cited as adhering to it would disagree with it. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Legal Theory Cambridge University Press 4/1(1998-03), 1-20 1352-3252 4:1<1 1998 4 LEG https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352325200000896 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352325200000896 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Raz Joseph Balliol College NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Legal Theory Cambridge University Press 4/1(1998-03), 1-20 1352-3252 4:1<1 1998 4 LEG CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge