A Reinterpretation of the Pure Theory of Exhaustion

Richard L. Gordon

doi:10.1086/259278

Some Psychological Aspects of the Belief in Immortality

Harvard Theological Review ◽

10.1017/s0017816000010658 ◽

1919 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 294-314

Author(s):

James Bissett Pratt

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Related Question ◽

Psychological Aspects ◽

Pure Theory ◽

The Future ◽

The Individual

The individual's attitude toward the Determiner of Destiny, which is religion, has always an essentially practical coloring. It involves a belief, to be sure, but this belief is never a matter of pure theory; it bears a reference, more or less explicit, to the fate of the individual's values. Hence in nearly every religion which history has studied or anthropology discovered, the question of the future in store for the individual believer has been one of prime importance. The content of this belief is a question for the theologian and the historian of religion; the psychologist, however, may be able to throw some light on the related question why people believe, or fail to believe, in immortality at all. What, in short, are the psychological sources from which this belief springs, and what are the leading types of this belief?

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Kelsen – Which Kelsen? A Reapplication of the Pure Theory to International Law

Leiden Journal of International Law ◽

10.1017/s0922156509005809 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 225-249 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

JÖRG KAMMERHOFER

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International Law ◽

Legal Theory ◽

Pure Theory ◽

Municipal Law ◽

Hans Kelsen ◽

Theory Of Law ◽

The Right ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship ◽

Legal Theorist

AbstractHans Kelsen is known both as a legal theorist and as an international lawyer. This article shows that his theory of international law is an integral part of the Kelsenian Pure Theory of Law. Two areas of international law are analysed: first, Kelsen's coercive order paradigm and its relationship to the bellum iustum doctrine; second, the Kelsenian notion of the unity of all law vis-à-vis theories of the relationship of international and municipal law. In a second step, the results of Kelsenian general legal theory of the late period – as interpreted and developed by the present author – are reapplied to selected doctrines of international law. Thus is the coercive order paradigm resolved, the unity of law dissolved, and the UN Charter reinterpreted to show that the concretization of norms as positive international law cannot be unmade by a scholarship usurping the right to make law.

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