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The Ethics of Legal Coercion (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983)
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The Ethics of Legal Coercion (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983)
Series: Philosophical Studies Series, 26
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Are all of the commonly accepted aims of the use of law
justifiable? Which kinds of behavior are justifiably prohibited,
which kinds justifiably required? What uses of law are not
defensible? How can the legitimacy or the ille gitimacy of various
uses of law be explained or accounted for? These are questions the
answering of which involves one in many issues of moral principle,
for the answers require that one adopt positions - even if only
implicitly - on further questions of what kinds of actions or
policies are morally or ethically acceptable. The present work,
aimed at questions of these kinds, is thus a study in the ethical
evaluation of major uses of legal coercion. It is an attempt to
provide a framework within which many questions about the proper
uses of law may be fruitfully discussed. The framework, if
successful, can be used by anyone asking questions about the
defensibility of particular or general uses of law, whether from
the perspective of someone considering whether to bring about some
new legal provision, from the perspective of someone concerned to
evaluate an eXisting provision, or from that of someone concerned
more abstractly with questions about the appropriate substance of
an ideal legal system. In addressing these and associated issues, I
shall be exploring the extent to which an ethics based on respect
for persons and their autonomy can handle satisfactorily the
problems arising here."
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