The right to do wrong : morality and the limits of law /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2019.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Common morality, social mores, and the law
- A sampling of rights to do wrong
- Three rights to do serious wrong
- How to "abuse" a right
- Law and morality in ordinary language and social science
- Divergences of law and morals: sites and sources
- Convergences of law and morals: sites and sources
- Questions of method and meaning
- Why this book is not what you had in mind
- The changing stance of lawyers towards common morality
- Commercial morality, bourgeois virtue, and the law
- How we attach responsibilities to rights
- Common morality confronts modernity.