Moral Combat - The Dilemma of Legal Perspectivalism

Klappentext Puts forward the argument that the law cannot require us to do what morality forbids. Zusammenfassung Explores the thesis that legal roles force people to engage in moral combat. Heidi Hurd advances the surprising argument that the law cannot require us to do what morality forbids. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. The Dilemma of Legal Perspectivalism: 1. The incompatibility of weak retributivism, the rule of law, and the separation of powers; Part II. Sources of the Dilemma of Legal Perspectivalism: 2. The rejection of moral relativism; 3. The indefensibility of practical authority; 4. The failure of influential authority; 5. The limits of advisory authority; 6. A defense of theoretical authority; Part III. The Moral Case for Legal Perspectivalism: 7. Practical errors: pragmatic foundations for perspectivalism; 8. The rule of law values: principled foundations for judicial perspectivalism; 9. The values of democracy and the separation of powers: principled foundations for constitutional perspectivalism; Part IV. The Moral Case Against Legal Perspectivalism: 10. Consequentialism and moral correspondence; 11. Deontology and moral correspondence; Part V. Resolving the Dilemma of Legal Perspectivalism: 12. Legal practices without moral combat; Bibliography.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Hurd Heidi, Heidi Hurd, Heidi (University of Pennsylvania) Hurd, Heidi M. Hurd, Hurd Heidi
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 13.11.2008
• EAN: 9780521089999
• ISBN: 978-0-521-08999-9
• Seiten: 368
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph; Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law
• Themen: Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Recht > Allgemeines, Lexika; LAW / Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Legal Ethics & Professional Conduct, Legal ethics and professional conduct, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law