Harmless Wrongdoing (Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, Vol 4) by Joel Feinberg

Harmless Wrongdoing (Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, Vol 4)



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Harmless Wrongdoing (Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, Vol 4) Joel Feinberg
Language: English
Page: 416
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0195064704, 9781423764304
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From Library Journal

This is the final volume of The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law by Feinberg (philosophy, University of Arizona). Harm to Others (1984) defines "harms" as intentional or reckless setbacks to a person's interest and analyzes this concept as it relates to interests, wants, hurts, offenses, and rights. Offense to Others (1985) discusses offensive nuisances and conduct (such as desecration of sacred symbols or obscenity), which are less serious but that induce unpleasant mental states in offended persons. Harm to Self (1986) examines the interplay of the concepts of legal paternalism, personal autonomy, voluntariness, and consent as they apply to such things as cigarette-smoking, drug use, or financial risk taking. And lastly, Harmless Wrongdoing discusses conduct that allegedly is morally wrong, but either does no harm at all or at least violates no right (e.g., consensual exploitation, marring of the aesthetic features of a community). In its scope, attention to principle and detail, careful argument, and respect for psychological and social realities, this last volume, as well as its predecessors, provides a first-rate analysis of which conduct the state may properly declare criminal and why. Feinberg's achievement moreover, is independent of whether or not one agrees with his analysis or adopts his conclusions. For informed readers and specialists. Robert Hoffman, York Coll., CUNY
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Review


"Comprehensive, systematic, argued with a rigour and scrupulousness unmatched, let along surpassed, in any comparable study....A colossal achievement, definitive and magisterial, a book which makes a permanent contribution to legal and political philosophy."--Times Literary Supplement


"With Harmless Wrongdoing Joel Feinberg has completed a four-volume treatise...that argues brilliantly for a liberal doctrine close in spirit to the 'one very simple principle' defended by John Stuart Mill in On Liberty."--Ethics


"Full of detail and careful argument....a very subtle and nuanced book....The work is wide-ranging, and has valuer for those with interests in social philosophy and ethics as well as philosophers of law."--Mind


"A serious, sustained, and surprisingly readable attempt to answer the question: Are we ever justified in outlawing behavior than doesn't actually harm anyone else? Proponents of moralistic legislation will find a powerful and thoughtful adversary in Feinberg."--Utne Reader


"In its scope, attention to principle and detail, careful argument, and respect for psychological and social realities, this last volume, as well as its predecessors, provides a first-rate analysis of which conduct the state may properly declare criminal and why. Feinberg's achievement, moreover, is independent of whether or not one agrees with his analysis or adopts his conclusions."--Library Journal


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