This book explores the thesis that legal roles force people to
engage in moral combat, an idea which is implicit in the assumption
that citizens may be morally required to disobey unjust laws, while
judges may be morally required to punish citizens for civil
disobedience. Heidi Hurd advances the surprising argument that the
law cannot require us to do what morality forbids. The
'role-relative' understanding of morality is shown to be
incompatible with both consequentialist and deontological moral
philosophies. In the end, Hurd shows that our best moral theory is
one which never makes one actor's moral success turn on another's
moral failure. Moral Combat is a sophisticated, well-conceived and
carefully argued book on a very important and controversial topic
at the junction between legal and political philosophy. It will be
of interest to moral, legal, and political philosophers, as well as
teachers and students of professional ethics in law.
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