Ethical Rationalism and the Law

Author: Patrick Capps; Shaun D. Pattinson
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781509929801

Published In: June 2019
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Hardback Edition ISBN: 9781849467865

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What role does reason have to play in determining what, if anything, is morally right? What role does morality have to play in law? Perhaps the most controversial answer to these fundamental questions is that reason supports a supreme principle of both morality and legality.

The contributors to this book cast a fresh critical eye over the coherence of modern approaches to ethical rationalism within law, and reflect on the intellectual history on which it builds.

The contributors then take the debate beyond the traditional concerns of legal theory into areas such as the relationship between morality and international law, and the impact of ethically controversial medical innovations on legal understanding.

1. The Past, Present and Future of Ethical Rationalism

Patrick Capps and Shaun D Pattinson

2. How to Become a Successful Hegelian

Stuart Toddington

3. Identifying and Justifying Moral Norms: Necessary Basics

Kenneth R Westphal

4. Hope, Agency, and Aesthetic Sensibility: A Response to Beyleveld's Account of Kantian Hope

Dascha Düring and Marcus Düwell

5. Justification in Morality and the Law

Michael Boylan

6. Advance Refusals and the Personal Identity Objection

Shaun D Pattinson