From the bottom up: selected essays

by Greenawalt, Kent

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Full title :From the bottom up : selected essays / Kent Greenawalt.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2016.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford (GB)
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2016.

The Physical Object

Description:1 v. (VI- 529 p.) ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780199756162, 0199756163
oclc:ocn965786428
LC Classification:K212
Dewey Decimal:340/.1

What are public reasons? -- On religion and politics in liberal democracies -- Religion and public reasons : making laws and evaluating candidates -- How persuasive is natural law theory? -- Natural law and public reasons -- Hart's rule of recognition and the United States -- Too thin and too rich : distinguishing features of legal positivism -- Legal enforcement of morality -- Law and objectivity : how people are treated -- How empty is the idea of equality? -- "Prescriptive equality" : two steps forward -- From the bottom up -- Distinguishing justifications from excuses -- Promise, benefit, and need : ties that bind us to the law -- Punishment -- A vice of its virtues : the perils of precision in criminal codification, as illustrated by retreat, general justification, and dangerous utterances -- "Clear and present danger" and criminal speech -- Free speech justifications -- Insults and epithets : are they protected speech? -- Five questions about religion judges are afraid to ask -- Religious toleration and claims of conscience.