Umfang:
xii, 303 Seiten
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausgabe [London] Bloomsbury Publishing 15 September 2014 1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781472562531
Serie:
Bloomsbury collections
Inhalt:
1. Moral and Legal Responsibility -- 2. The Nature and Functions of Responsibility -- 3. Responsibility and Culpability -- 4. Responsibility and Causation -- 5. Responsibility and Personality -- 6. Grounds and Bounds of Responsibility -- 7. Realising Responsibility -- 8. Responsibility in Public Law -- 9. Thinking about Responsibility -- References -- Index.
Inhalt:
"Lawyers who write about responsibility tend to focus on criminal law at the expense of civil and public law; while philosophers tend to treat responsibility as a moral concept,and either ignore the law or consider legal responsibility to be a more or less distorted reflection of its moral counterpart. This book aims to counteract both of these biases. By adopting a comparative institutional approach to the relationship between law and morality, it challenges the common view that morality stands to law as critical standard to conventional practice. It shows how law and morality interact symbiotically, and how careful study of legal concepts of responsibility can add significantly to our understanding of responsibility more generally. Central to this project is a distinction between two paradigms of responsibility -- the criminal law paradigm and the civil law paradigm. Whereas theoretical discussions of responsibility tend focus on conduct and agency, taking account of civil law reveals the importance of outcomes and the interests of victims and society to ideas of responsibility. The book examines from a distinctively legal point of view central philosophical questions about responsibility such as its relationship with culpability (challenging the common view that moral responsibility requires fault), causation and personality. It explores the relevance of sanctions and problems of proof and enforcement to ideas of responsibility, as well as the relationship between responsibility and distributive justice, and the role of concepts of responsibility in public law. At the heart of this book lie two questions: what does it mean to say we are responsible? and, what are our responsibilities? Its aim is not to answer these questions but to challenge some traditional approaches to answering them and more importantly, to suggest fruitful alternative approaches that take law seriously."--Bloomsbury Publishing
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781841133218
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als
Weitere Ausg.:
Elektronische Reproduktion von Cane, Peter, 1950 - Responsibility in law and morality Oxford [u.a.] : Hart, 2002 ISBN 9781841134000
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1841133213
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Rechtswissenschaft
,
Philosophie
Schlagwort(e):
Verantwortlichkeit
;
Schuld
;
Haftung
;
Rechtsphilosophie
DOI:
10.5040/9781472562531
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