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How To Build A Bomb & Other Ethical Issues In The Library, Kathryn Waggoner, Laurel Balkema, Lee Lebbin, Debbie Morrow, Kim Ranger

Kim L. Ranger

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How To Build A Bomb & Other Ethical Issues In The Library, Kathryn Waggoner, Laurel Balkema, Lee Lebbin, Debbie Morrow, Kim Ranger

Kathryn L Waggoner

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Moral Perception And Particularity, Lawrence Blum

Lawrence Blum

Most contemporary moral philosophy is concerned with issues of rationality, universality, impartiality, and principle. By contrast Lawrence Blum is concerned with the psychology of moral agency. The essays in this collection examine the moral import of emotion, motivation, judgment, perception, and group identifications, and explore how all these psychic capacities contribute to a morally good life.

Creation And The Common Good, A North American Perspective On Civil Culture, Harlan Stelmach

Harlan Stelmach

The State Interest In The Good Citizen: Constitutional Balance Between The Citizen And The Perfectionist State, Steve Sheppard

Steve Sheppard

Judges must have flexibility when responding to the changing norms of justice in society, but they must also maintain predictability to enhance the cultural acceptance of the Court’s authority and the authority of law in society. Predictability demands that a rationale for each decision be communicated by the authors of opinions so that it can be replicable by other courts.

The debate over a preferred method of adjudication, balancing or categorical, is moot because the two methods are not mutually exclusive. The important issue is the definition of interests to be promoted or discouraged by law, which must also be …