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Truth And Consequences: The Force Of Blackmail - Outline - 01-02-1993, Wendy J. Gordon Jan 1993

Truth And Consequences: The Force Of Blackmail - Outline - 01-02-1993, Wendy J. Gordon

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This paper: To show what we agree on by explication of the deontologic justification for blackmail prohibitions. In the processĀ· to make the deontologic nature of bmail clearer; to show how the deont & consequentialist approaches agree on the central case; to defend the criminaliz of the central case in liberal (non-libertarian) terms; to provide some tentative observations on the non-central cases