
Constitution
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- Cover
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Constitutionalism, Evolution and Social Theory: the Need of an Integrated Approach
- 1.1. Legal Theory and Evolution: A Historical Background
- 1.2. Do We Need an Evolutionary Approach to Constitutionalism?
- 1.2.1. The Darwinian Challenge to Social and Legal Scholarship
- 1.2.2. Evolutionary Theory Offers a Consilient Approach to Constitutional Theory
- 1.2.3. Shedding New Lights on Old Problems
- 1.2.4. Constitutionalism as a Cooperation-Enhancing Evolved Structure
- 2. From Hierarchical Primates to an Egalitarian Species: Understanding the Origins of Human Cooperation
- 2.1. Gene-centered Mechanisms of Cooperation
- 2.1.1. Kin Selection
- 2.1.2. Direct Reciprocity
- 2.2. Gene-culture Coevolutionary Foundations of Human Pro-social Behavior
- 2.2.1. The Role of Indirect Reciprocity
- 2.2.2. The Emergence of Culture and Cultural Evolution as Preconditions to Cooperation among Humans
- 2.2.3. The Evolution of a Normative Mind: Gene-culture Coevolution and the Cognitive Foundations of Large-scale Altruism
- 2.2.3.1. Moralistic Punishment and Imitation Strengthen Cultural Group Selection
- 2.2.3.2. The Moral Grammar Wired in the Normative Mind
- 2.2.4. Multilevel Selection Foundations of Human Normative Behavior and Cooperation in Large-Scale Societies
- 3. Darwinian Populations and Social Theory
- 3.1. What is a Darwinian population?
- 3.1.1. The Parameters of a Darwinian Population in Godfrey-Smith's Perspective
- 3.1.2. Reproduction and Collective Entities according to Godfrey-Smith
- 3.1.3. Levels, Transitions and Multilevel Selection
- 3.2. Sociocultural Darwinian Populations
- 3.2.1. The problem of Emergence in Sociology
- 3.2.2. Luhmann's Theory as a Bridge between Sociology and Psychology
- 3.2.2.1. The Biological Constraints of Cultural Evolution
- 3.2.2.2. Systems Theory and Microsociological Evolution
- 3.2.2.3. Systems Theory Must Take Multilevel Selection Processes into Account
- 3.2.2.4. Luhmann's Darwin: Reconciling Autopoiesis and Evolution
- 3.2.3. Human Societies as Darwinian Individuals
- 4. The Function of Law in an Evolutionary Theory of Stratification
- 4.1. Functionalism and Sociology
- 4.1.1. Sociological Functionalism Revisited
- 4.1.2. The Concept of Function in Biology
- 4.1.3. Function: An Abstract Concept of Evolutionary Thought
- 4.2. The Function(s) of Law
- 4.2.1. Macro-dynamic (and Meso-dynamic?) level: Law as Structure of Society
- 4.2.2. Micro-dynamic level: Law Promotes Cooperation
- 4.2.3. The Natural Law Roots of All Legal Systems
- 4.3. From Egalitarian Foragers to Stratified Empires: Hierarchy Strikes Back
- 4.3.1. Breaking down the Egalitarian Logic: An Anthropological Perspective
- 4.3.2. The Adaptive Function of Stratification and the Law of Pre-Modern High Cultures
- 5. Constitutionalism as an Evolved Adaptation
- 5.1. The Sociological Preconditions of the Constitutional State: Hauke Brunkhorst's Critical Theory of Legal Revolutions
- 5.2 The Multilevel Selection of Constitutional Societies
- 5.3. Constitutional Societies as Darwinian Individuals
- 5.4. Egalitarianism Strikes Back: Inclusion and Exclusion in Constitutional Societies
- 5.5. The Psychological Foundations of Constitutionalism
- Concluding Remarks
- References
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