Moral Combat: The Dilemma of Legal Perspectivalism
Heidi Hurd
This book explores the thesis that legal roles force people to engage in moral combat, an idea that is implicit in the assumption that citizens may be morally required to disobey unjust laws, while judges may be morally required to punish citizens for civil disobedience. Heidi Hurd advances the surprising argument that the law cannot require us to do what morality forbids. Moral Combat is a sophisticated, well-conceived and carefully argued book on a very important and controversial topic at the junction between legal and political philosophy. It will be of interest to moral, legal, and political philosophers, as well as teachers and students of professional ethics in law.
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Year:
2008
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Language:
english
Pages:
368
ISBN 10:
0521642248
ISBN 13:
9780521642248
Series:
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law
File:
PDF, 32.66 MB
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english, 2008