Harm to Self (Moral Limits of the Criminal Law)
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (855 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195059239 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Not only does Feinberg convincingly make the case that no area of interference into the domain of self-regarding action is trivialbut he also persuasively pursues all the policy implications and moral connotations of the various contemporary legal test cases of the contours of individual privacy."--Times Higher EducationSupplement"Because of his focus on the moral limits of the criminal law, Feinberg develops, with characteristic subtlety and illumination, an account of what he calls failures of consent in two-party cases: when does the consent on the part of the party harmed to the action of another harming him or her fail to make the other's action legally permissible and so justify criminal prohibitions of the other's harmful conduct?.A first-rate workof moral philosophycontains richly detailed and illuminating discussions of a host of issues concerning paternalism
Excellent Book, Extremely Relevant to Modern Problems I was introduced to this book in a course entitled Philosophy of Law. It provides an organized, thorough look at the philosophical underpinings of some of the most important problems facing society today. This is a great book!
. Joel Feinberg is at University of Arizona, Tucson
This is the third volume of Joel Feinberg's highly regarded The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, a four-volume series in which Feinberg skillfully addresses a complex question: What kinds of conduct may the state make criminal without infringing on the moral autonomy of individual citizens? In Harm to Self, Feinberg offers insightful commentary into various notions attached to self-inflicted harm, covering such topics as legal paternalism, personal sovereignty and its boundaries, voluntariness and assumptions of risk, consent and its counterfeits, coercive force, incapacity, and choice of death.