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Brownlee, Kimberley and Child, Richard (2012) Can the law help us to be moral? Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick. Warwick School of Law Research Paper (Number 2012/17).
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Abstract
This essay looks at whether the law can help us to be moral. First, it assesses the law’s credentials to be an instrument or tool that can help us to be moral in a consequentialist, deontological, or virtue-ethical sense. As a tool, the law’s potential uses are 1) to be a moral advisor, 2) to set a moral example, and 3) to be a moral motivator. The law’s moral usefulness in each of these three ways is mixed. Second, the essay considers whether the law itself has intrinsic moral value. The essay shows that this is only true of the law of some legal systems.
Item Type: | Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper) | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||
Series Name: | Warwick School of Law Research Paper | ||||
Publisher: | University of Warwick | ||||
Place of Publication: | Coventry | ||||
Official Date: | 25 June 2012 | ||||
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Number: | Number 2012/17 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 22 | ||||
Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
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