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Vietnam Amnesty – Problems Of Justice And Line-Drawing, Kent Greenawalt Jan 1977

Vietnam Amnesty – Problems Of Justice And Line-Drawing, Kent Greenawalt

Faculty Scholarship

The troublesome issue of pardon for crimes connected with the Vietnam War raises some of the most complex and difficult questions in the philosophy of law. What are the purposes of criminal punishment? Under what conditions is violation of obligations imposed by law morally justified? When, and on what conditions, is it proper to excuse those who have violated the law for conscientious reasons? How much should decisions whether to pardon turn on what offenders "deserve" and how much should they turn on what will be socially acceptable and promote future social harmony? How far should the desirability of dispositions …

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The Good Society And The Complexity Of The Structure Of Morality, Hector-Neri Castaneda Apr 1975

The Good Society And The Complexity Of The Structure Of Morality, Hector-Neri Castaneda

IUSTITIA

In this paper I have two main purposes: (i) to outline the most general structure of morality, which is the fundamental schema of a good society, and (ii) to indict most of the mainstream views in the history of moral philosophy for their unchecked tendency toward reductionism and oversimplification. The tendency to oversimplification appears both in the gathering of the data for philosophical theorizing and in the theorizing itself. I will also point out another major recurring error in moral philosophy. I envision the day when moral philosophers, after examining their ontological and their methodological assumptions, rally to the banner …

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The Nature Of The Contract Argument, David B. Lyons Aug 1974

The Nature Of The Contract Argument, David B. Lyons

Faculty Scholarship

As truth is the first virtue of belief, so justice is of social institutions. That is John Rawls's view, and it seems true, at any rate, of the law. Official acts, laws, and legal arrangements generally are characterized as just or unjust, while other moral categories are much less frequently invoked. Justice seems inseparable from good law. It is therefore striking and important that justice has recently been regarded by prominent legal theorists as rationally disreputable--as, in Kelsen's words, "an irrational idea." Many divergent conceptions of social justice have been propounded, and it is held that there is no rational …

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On Formal Justice, David B. Lyons Jun 1973

On Formal Justice, David B. Lyons

Faculty Scholarship

A number of legal and political theorists have suggested that public officials who fail to act within the law that they administer act unjustly. This does not mean that injustice is always likely to be done merely because it often happens to be done when officials depart from the law. Some writers have held that injustice is done whenever an official fails to act within the law, regardless of the circumstances. I shall call this type of view "formal justice."

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Legal And Moral Duty In Game Theory: Common Law Contract And Chinese Analogies, Robert L. Birmingham Jan 1968

Legal And Moral Duty In Game Theory: Common Law Contract And Chinese Analogies, Robert L. Birmingham

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Address By Secretary Of Labor W. Willard Wirtz, W. Willard Wirtz Jan 1964

Address By Secretary Of Labor W. Willard Wirtz, W. Willard Wirtz

San Diego Law Review

The address was delivered by Mr. Wirtz at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools held in Los Angeles on December 29, 1963. Because they were addressed to the particular group assembled and depended for their meaning upon circumstances existing at the time, certain introductory comments have been deleted.

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Book Review. Cairns, H., Legal Philosophy From Plato To Hegel, Jerome Hall Jan 1949

Book Review. Cairns, H., Legal Philosophy From Plato To Hegel, Jerome Hall

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Civil Government. Its Origin, Mission, And Destiny, And The Christian's Relation To It., David Lipscomb Jan 1889

Civil Government. Its Origin, Mission, And Destiny, And The Christian's Relation To It., David Lipscomb

Stone-Campbell Books

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