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When we impose risk upon others, what is it that we are doing? What is risking's moral significance? What moral standards govern the imposition of risk? And how should the law respond to it? Drawing on philosophy and legal theory the author constructs a normative framework of risk imposition to help answer these important and oft-ignored questions.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: Imposing Risk: Challenging the Very Idea
- 2: Moralizing Risk
- 3: The Moral Significance of Risking
- 4: A Right Against Risking
- 5: Justifiable Risking
About the author
John Oberdiek is Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School. He is also Associate Graduate Faculty in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Department of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy. Educated in philosophy and law at Middlebury, Oxford, New York University, and the University of Pennsylvania, Oberdiek has been a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton.
Summary
When we impose risk upon others, what is it that we are doing? What is risking's moral significance? What moral standards govern the imposition of risk? And how should the law respond to it? Drawing on philosophy and legal theory the author constructs a normative framework of risk imposition to help answer these important and oft-ignored questions.
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John Oberdiek tackles one of the hardest problems in moral and legal philosophy â the question of when it is wrong to impose risks on others and why. With characteristic clarity, insight, and depth he defends the right that people have against having risks imposed on them in the light of more fundamental values, especially the value of autonomy. He offers his account in the context of a more comprehensive non-consequentialist moral and legal theory. Imposing Risk is a terrific achievement.
