Author: Prof. WU Yan
WU Yan:
Associate Professor of Tongji Law School,
Director of Tongji University Legal Philosophy Research Center.
Contents
Chapter 1 Natural Law Jurisprudence
1. Why and How Natural Law Jurisprudence Came into Being?
2. The Evolution of Ancient and Modern Natural Law Jurisprudence
3. The Four Elements of Law in Aquinas's Theory
4. Impressions on John Finnis
5. Why John Finnis?
6. Summary of Finnis' Practical Philosophy
Chapter 2 Legal Philosophy
7. What Kind of Legal Philosophy Is Needed in Our Time?
8. Legal Philosophy, Common Life and Classical Jurisprudence
9. The CLSCI System and the Closure of Chinese Jurisprudence
——The Decline of Basic Disciplines such as "Legal History" and "Legal Philosophy
10. Law and the State: Main Issues in the History of Legal Philosophy
11. The Good Political Order
12. The State, War and Modern Order
13. The Cultural Obligations of the State
Chapter 3 Language and Translation
14. Language, Culture and Political Identity: Reflections on Chinese Language and the Destiny of the Nation
15. Small Talk about Translation
16. Language Proficiency and Academic Research
17. Four General Prefaces to the Series
Chapter 4 Academics and Life
18. My Destiny with Academics
19. Why the Classics? A Brief Reflection
20. Reading Original Texts and Secondary Literature - Reflections on Human Reflexivity
21. A Reading List for Students of Jurisprudence
22. Reading Notes
23. Old and New Knowledge of an Ordinary Academician: an Interview