The Enforcement Of Morals

Author : Patrick Devlin
Publisher : Amagi Books
ISBN 13 : 9780865978058
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Enforcement of Morals written by Patrick Devlin and published by Amagi Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are morals always relative? Are private actions--among consenting adults-- always beyond the law? Or are there some behaviors which so weaken a society that common beliefs about right and wrong must be enforced to protect the common good? In opposing the decriminalization of private acts of homosexuality in Britain, Patrick Devlin maintained that not only is it reasonable to allow popular morality to influence lawmaking, it is imperative: " . . . For a society is not something that is kept together physically; it is held by the invisible bonds of common thought." Today, as divisive issues such as same-sex marriage and "don't ask, don't tell" confront our legislative, judicial, and executive branches, the views expressed by Devlin in The Enforcement of Morals resonate and reverberate anew. Patrick Devlin (1905-1992) studied history and law at Cambridge University and became a successful lawyer.

Author : Patrick Baron Devlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Enforcement of Morals written by Patrick Baron Devlin and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patrick Baron Devlin
Publisher : London ; New York [etc.] : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Enforcement of Morals written by Patrick Baron Devlin and published by London ; New York [etc.] : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Maccabean Lecture by the most outspoken prestigious opponent of the Wolfenden reform proposal. Answered by Stuart Hampshire, A.J. Ayer, et al.--Jim Kepner.

Author : Patrick Baron Devlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
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Download or read book The Enforcement of Morals written by Patrick Baron Devlin and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521466424
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law, Sexuality, and Society written by David Cohen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-02-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the regulation of sexuality, the family and unorthodox religious beliefs in classical Athens, by placing the question in a larger comparative and theoretical framework.

Author : H. L. A. Hart
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804701549
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law, Liberty, and Morality written by H. L. A. Hart and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This incisive book deals with the use of the criminal law to enforce morality, in particular sexual morality, a subject of particular interest and importance since the publication of the Wolfenden Report in 1957. Professor Hart first considers John Stuart Mill's famous declaration: "The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community is to prevent harm to others." During the last hundred years this doctrine has twice been sharply challenged by two great lawyers: Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, the great Victorian judge and historian of the common law, and Lord Devlin, who both argue that the use of the criminal law to enforce morality is justified. The author examines their arguments in some detail, and sets out to demonstrate that they fail to recognize distinction of vital importance for legal and political theory, and that they espouse a conception of the function of legal punishment that few would now share.

Author : Robert P. George
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191018732
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Men Moral written by Robert P. George and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1993-08-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary liberal thinkers commonly suppose that there is something in principle unjust about the legal prohibition of putatively victimless immoralities. Against the prevailing liberal view, Robert P. George defends the proposition that `moral laws' can play a legitimate, if subsidiary, role in preserving the `moral ecology' of the cultural environment in which people make the morally significant choices by which they form their characters and influence, for good or ill, the moral lives of others. George shows that a defence of morals legislation is fully compatible with a `pluralistic perfectionist' political theory of civil liberties and public morality.

Author : Philip Soper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521008723
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Deference written by Philip Soper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-24 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Differs from standard approaches by focusing on the language of deference instead of obedience.

Author : Herbert Spencer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4L/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Data of Ethics written by Herbert Spencer and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lon Luvois Fuller
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300004729
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Morality of Law written by Lon Luvois Fuller and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: