Heidi M. Hurd, Hurd Heidi

Moral Combat

The Dilemma of Legal Perspectivalism
Herausgeber: Postema, Gerald

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Puts forward the argument that the law cannot require us to do what morality forbids.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 747g
• ISBN-13: 9780521642248
• ISBN-10: 0521642248
• Artikelnr.: 22346053

Inhaltsangabe

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.