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Responsibility in Law and Morality (Hardcover, 2005. Corr. 2nd Ed.) Loot Price: R3,305
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Responsibility in Law and Morality (Hardcover, 2005. Corr. 2nd Ed.): Peter Cane

Responsibility in Law and Morality (Hardcover, 2005. Corr. 2nd Ed.)

Peter Cane

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Lawyers who write about responsibility tend to focus on criminal law at the expense of civil and public law; while philosophers tend to treat responsibility as a moral concept,and either ignore the law or consider legal responsibility to be a more or less distorted reflection of its moral counterpart. This book aims to counteract both of these biases. By adopting a comparative institutional approach to the relationship between law and morality, it challenges the common view that morality stands to law as critical standard to conventional practice. It shows how law and morality interact symbiotically, and how careful study of legal concepts of responsibility can add significantly to our understanding of responsibility more generally. Central to this project is a distinction between two paradigms of responsibility -- the criminal law paradigm and the civil law paradigm. Whereas theoretical discussions of responsibility tend focus on conduct and agency, taking account of civil law reveals the importance of outcomes and the interests of victims and society to ideas of responsibility. The book examines from a distinctively legal point of view central philosophical questions about responsibility such as its relationship with culpability (challenging the common view that moral responsibility requires fault), causation and personality. It explores the relevance of sanctions and problems of proof and enforcement to ideas of responsibility, as well as the relationship between responsibility and distributive justice, and the role of concepts of responsibility in public law. At the heart of this book lie two questions: what does it mean to say we are responsible? and, what are our responsibilities? Its aim is not to answer these questions but to challenge some traditional approaches to answering them and more importantly, to suggest fruitful alternative approaches that take law seriously.

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Imprint: Hart Publishing
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: April 2002
First published: 2002
Authors: Peter Cane
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Edition: 2005. Corr. 2nd Ed.
ISBN-13: 978-1-84113-321-8
Categories: Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Jurisprudence & philosophy of law
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
LSN: 1-84113-321-3
Barcode: 9781841133218

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