Dias Jurisprudence by R.W.M Dias
Book Overview
About The Book:
The study of jurisprudence is an opportunity for lawyers to bring theory and life into focus, it concerns human thought in relation to society. It is always the hope of teachers of law to encourage pupils to learn how to think rather than just what to know, and Jurisprudence is suited to this end because it can set law wider context and proceed by way of stimulation and not simply by instruction. This book does not evolve or demonstrate a particular theory, but seeks instead to provide a way of thinking about law. It also tries to furnish material for the evolution of ideas and the understanding of other theories and in this respect serves as a prelude to these contributions by providing an informed and critical background to them. A guarantee of independence and originality in thought is breadth of view, a sense of perspective and appreciation of what people have said and are saying. No one theory provides the best or exclusive avenue to the 'truth', and those who choose to tread one path rather than another are not for that reason misguided. Jurisprudence is a field traversed by many paths, none being superior to another, since much depends on whither one wishes to go.