Independent functioning is not simply the ability to do something, but also the ability to decide what to do. It is not only the ability to take care of oneself. It is also the ability to take responsibility for oneself. Autonomy and independence do not grow out of being told what to do and when to do it. It is only by having his needs considered, by becoming a participant in the decision-makin...

Abstract There has been considerable debate in legal philosophy about how to attribute purposes rules. Separately, within cognitive science, there a growing body of research concerned with questions people ordinarily purposes. Here, we argue that these two separate fields might be connected by experimental jurisprudence. Across four studies, find evidence for the claim use same criteria physica...

In addition to the reliance of many financial transactions on this verse, verse "And God has permitted sale," which, despite its few words, contained fundamental and jurisprudential details, is a declaration greatness Qur'anic verses, whose verbal structure simple while meanings are numerous. This investigation reveals use noble as an example obvious text clearly denoting two sections in princi...

With the introduction, by John Austin, of the command theory of law,1 a certain distinction among theories of law entered the jurisprudential landscape: the distinction between theories that seek to characterize obedience to law in terms of external motivations, such as sanctions for noncompliance, and those that characterize obedience to law in terms of internal motivations, such as a moral co...