Enforcing Morality

"Enforcing Morality is written for scholars and graduate students working in the fields of philosophy, law and political theory. It provides both a critical overview of debates on the enforcement of morality and a defense of a distinctive position on the topic"--

List of contents

1. Introduction; Part I. Background Controversies: 2. Mill's Principle; 3. The Hart/Devlin Debate; 4. Sovereignty and Consent; Part II. Critical Legal Moralism: 5. Ethical Environmentalism I; 6. Ethical Environmentalism II; 7. The Good of Personal Liberty; 8. Rights to do Wrongs; 9. Free Expression; 10. Pragmatism and the Perils of Enforcement.

About the author

Steven Wall is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona, where he is also a member of the Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law Program. Among other publications, he is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Liberalism (2015) and the Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Wall, Steven (University of Arizona) Wall, Wall Steven
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.11.2023
• EAN: 9781009363792
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0936379-2
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / General, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law