Moral combat / Heidi M. Hurd.
Moral combat / Heidi M. Hurd.
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Date
1999.
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N340.112/15
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English
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xvii, 348 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Pt. I. The Dilemma of Legal Perspectivalism. 1. The Incompatibility of Weak Retributivism, the Rule of Law, and the Separation of Powers -- Pt. II. Sources of the Dilemma of Legal Perspectivalism. 2. The Rejection of Moral Relativism. 3. The Indefensibility of Practical Authority. 4. The Failure of...
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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England
Date Published
1999.
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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 d...
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Moral combat / Heidi M. Hurd.
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Cambridge studies in philosophy and law.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-338) and index.
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N340.112/15
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0521642248 :
9780521642248 (hardback)
0521642248 (hardback)
9780521642248
0521642248
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340.112
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991011986579702626
