"Through a variety of arguments, Where Law and Morality Meet highlights both some surprising affinities and some striking divergences between morality and law."--Jacket.
"Through a variety of arguments, Where Law and Morality Meet highlights both some surprising affinities and some striking divergences between morality and law."--BOOK JACKET.
How are law and morality connected, how do they interact, and in what ways are they distinct? These questions have been a fundamental concern in the modern analytic philosophy of law. In Where Law and Morality Meet Matthew Kramer reviews the most influential accounts of legal an…
"Through a variety of arguments, Where Law and Morality Meet highlights both some surprising affinities and some striking divergences between morality and law."--Jacket.
I. Making sense of 'human dignity' 1. Human dignity as empowerment 2. Human dignity and the new bioethics: Human dignity as constraint The Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine The Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights The new bioethics in Europe …
The essays collected in this book illustrate the application to one or another political or jurisprudential problem of general views about morality and the law.
