Problems at the Roots of Law: Essays in Legal and Political Theory

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Oxford University Press, 2002 M12 26 - 232 páginas
Feinberg is one of the leading philosophers of law of the last forty years. This volume collects recent articles, both published and unpublished, on what he terms "basic questions" about the law, particularly in regard to the relationship to morality. Accessibly and elegantly written, this volume's audience will reflect the diverse nature of Feinberg's own interests: scholars in philosophy of law, legal theory, and ethical and moral theory.

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Página 165 - Disorder is an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual's culture, is pervasive and inflexible, has an onset in adolescence or early adulthood, is stable over time, and leads to distress or impairment" (American Psychiatric Association, 1994, p.
Página 165 - ... is a pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of emotional expression.
Página 49 - In proportion to the want of happiness resulting from the want of rights, a reason exists for wishing that there were such things as rights. But reasons for wishing there were such things as rights, are not rights; — a reason for wishing that a certain right were established, is not that right - want is not supply - hunger is not bread.
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Página 58 - Entrapment is the conception and planning of an offense by an officer, and his procurement of its. commission by one who would not have perpetrated it except for the trickery, persuasion, or fraud of the officer.
Página 202 - SI Benn and RS Peters, Social Principles and the Democratic State (London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1959), p. 92. 4. The example is from RB Brandt, "The Concept of a Moral Right and its function," The Journal of Philosophy (1983): 29.
Página 187 - ... to very strong temptation, under the influence of the other, who is a man of rank and education, and who committed the offence of which both are convicted under comparatively slight temptation. I will venture to say that if he made any difference between them at all every judge on the English bench would...

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