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Conflicts of Law and Morality.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Clarendon Law SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1989Copyright date: ©1989Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (396 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780195363296
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Conflicts of Law and MoralityDDC classification:
  • 340/.112
LOC classification:
  • K230.G74.G744 1987
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- I. THE CONFLICTING CLAIMS OF LAW AND MORALITY -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Claims of Law -- 3. Moral Claims and Moral Appraisal -- II. MORAL REASONS TO OBEY THE LAW -- 4. Legitimate Authority and the Duty to Obey -- 5. Promissory Obligation: The Theme of Social Contract -- 6. Utilitarianism: Consequential Reasons for Obedience -- 7. Fair Play -- 8. A Natural Duty to Obey: Benefit, Need, and Duty -- III. THE LIMITS OF JUSTIFIABLE DISOBEDIENCE -- 9. Resolutions Among Competing Moral Grounds: The Absence of Clear Priorities -- 10. Nonviolent Disobedience: Reasons, Tactics, Justification -- 11. Violent Disobedience -- IV. INSTITUTIONS OF AMELIORATION -- 12. Responses Within the Law to Moral Claims to Disobey -- 13. General Justification-Necessity -- 14. Conscientious Objection and Constitutional Interpretation -- 15. Techniques of Amelioration in the Criminal Process: Nonprosecution, Nullification, Sentencing, and Pardon -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Summary: Powerful emotion and pursuit of self-interest have many times led people to break the law with the belief that they are doing so with sound moral reasons. This study is a comprehensive philosophical and legal analysis of the gray area in which the foundations of law and morality clash. In examining the extent of the obligations owed by citizens to their government, Greenawalt concentrates on the possible existence of a single source of obligation that reaches all citizens and all laws.
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Intro -- Contents -- I. THE CONFLICTING CLAIMS OF LAW AND MORALITY -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Claims of Law -- 3. Moral Claims and Moral Appraisal -- II. MORAL REASONS TO OBEY THE LAW -- 4. Legitimate Authority and the Duty to Obey -- 5. Promissory Obligation: The Theme of Social Contract -- 6. Utilitarianism: Consequential Reasons for Obedience -- 7. Fair Play -- 8. A Natural Duty to Obey: Benefit, Need, and Duty -- III. THE LIMITS OF JUSTIFIABLE DISOBEDIENCE -- 9. Resolutions Among Competing Moral Grounds: The Absence of Clear Priorities -- 10. Nonviolent Disobedience: Reasons, Tactics, Justification -- 11. Violent Disobedience -- IV. INSTITUTIONS OF AMELIORATION -- 12. Responses Within the Law to Moral Claims to Disobey -- 13. General Justification-Necessity -- 14. Conscientious Objection and Constitutional Interpretation -- 15. Techniques of Amelioration in the Criminal Process: Nonprosecution, Nullification, Sentencing, and Pardon -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Powerful emotion and pursuit of self-interest have many times led people to break the law with the belief that they are doing so with sound moral reasons. This study is a comprehensive philosophical and legal analysis of the gray area in which the foundations of law and morality clash. In examining the extent of the obligations owed by citizens to their government, Greenawalt concentrates on the possible existence of a single source of obligation that reaches all citizens and all laws.

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