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Responsibility in Law and Morality (Paperback, Uk Ed.)
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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. 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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