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Responsibility in Law and Morality

By Peter Cane

Book information

Year
2002
ISBN
1841133213, 9781847310262, 9781841133218
LCC
K247.6 .C36 2002
Open Library ID
OL3389333M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
979 kB (1002419 bytes)
Edition
2005. Corr. 2nd
Pages
317\317
Topic
Jurisprudence Law
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Lawyers who write about responsibility focus on criminal law at the expense of civil and public law. 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.

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