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The Jurisdiction Of Justice: Two Conceptions Of Political Morality, Larry Alexander
The Jurisdiction Of Justice: Two Conceptions Of Political Morality, Larry Alexander
San Diego Law Review
My topic in this essay is a major fault line within normative theory. More precisely, it is a major fault line within that part of a normative theory that deals with the content of our moral obligations to others. When I refer to moral obligations here, I am referring to those acts that morality demands of us such that it permits force or its threat to be employed to secure those acts. Moral obligations as I use the term are thus candidates for legal enforcement. I argue that much of what is debated within liberal political/moral theory can be usefully …