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The right to do wrong : morality and the limits of law /
The law sometimes permits what ordinary morality, or widely-shared notions of right and wrong, reproaches. Rights to Do Grave Wrong explores the relationship between law and common morality to clarify law's reliance on society's broad presumption that people will exercise their rights resp...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Common morality, social mores, and the law
- A sampling of rights to do wrong
- Three rights to do serious wrong
- How to "abuse" a right
- Law and morality in ordinary language and social science
- Divergences of law and morals: sites and sources
- Convergences of law and morals: sites and sources
- Questions of method and meaning
- Why this book is not what you had in mind
- The changing stance of lawyers towards common morality
- Commercial morality, bourgeois virtue, and the law
- How we attach responsibilities to rights
- Common morality confronts modernity.