Freedom and Fulfillment
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Abortion
Abortion debate
Absurdity
Analogy
Attempt
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Capital punishment
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Civil disobedience
Consideration
Constitutional law
Controversy
Crime
Criminal law
Criticism
Cruelty
Defamation
Defendant
Discretion
Due process
Duty to rescue
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Ethics
Euthanasia
Explanation
Fetus
Fraud
Freedom of speech
Harm principle
Immorality
Infanticide
Injunction
Institution
Intention (criminal law)
Irrationality
Jeremy Bentham
Joel Feinberg
John Stuart Mill
Lecture
Legislation
Moral rights
Morality
Murder
Personhood
Philosopher
Plaintiff
Practical Ethics
Privacy
Prosecutor
Punishment
Rationality
Reasonable person
Recklessness (psychology)
Requirement
Resentment
Result
Rights
Sedition
Seriousness
Statute
Suffering
Suggestion
Tax
The Other Hand
Theory
Third-party beneficiary
Thought
Tort
Utilitarianism
Victimless crime
Voluntary euthanasia
Wrongdoing
Wrongful life
Product details
- ISBN 9780691019246
- Weight: 539g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 04 Dec 1994
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Dealing with a diverse set of problems in practical and theoretical ethics, these fourteen essays, three of them previously unpublished, reconfirm Joel Feinberg's leading position in the field of legal philosophy. With a clarity and humor that will be familiar to readers of his other works, Feinberg writes on topics including "wrongful life" suits in the law of torts, or whether there is any sense in the remark that a person is so badly off that he would be better off not existing at all; the morality of abortion; educational options; free expression; civil disobedience; and the duty of easy rescue in criminal law. He continues with a three-part defense of moral rights in the abstract, a discussion of voluntary euthanasia, and an inquiry into arguments of various kinds for not granting legal rights in enforcement of a person's acknowledged moral rights. This collection concludes with two essays dealing with concepts used in appraising the whole of a person's life: absurdity and self-fulfillment, and their interplay.
Joel Feinberg, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona, is the author of the four-volume work The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law. Among his other collections of essays is Doing and Deserving: Essays in the Theory of Responsibility (Princeton).
