Problems at the Roots of Law: Essays in Legal and Political Theory

Problems at the Roots of Law: Essays in Legal and Political Theory

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1-232

  Feinberg, Joel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Entrapment; Evil; Law; Legal positivism; Mental illness; Morality; Natural law; Political obligation; Punishment; Rights

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922397881     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0195155262.001.0001     Document Type: Book

References (84)

1. W. R. LaFave and A. W. Scott, Criminal Law, vol. 9 (St. Paul, Minn.: West, 1972).
2. Joel Feinberg, "Harm to Others," in his The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law (New York: Oxford University Press, (1984), p. 1.
3. See Joel Feinberg, "Action and Responsibility," in Doing and Deserving, ed. Joel Feinberg (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1970), pp. 119-51.
4. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., "The Path of the Law," in his Collected Legal Papers (Bedford, Mass.: Applewood, 1996), pp. 167-70.
5. George Fletcher, A Crime of Self-Defense: Bernard Goetz and the Law on Trial (New York: Free Press, 1988), pp. 63-83;
6. George Fletcher, Rethinking Criminal Law (Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, 1978), 472-83.
7. Judith J. Thomson, "The Decline of Cause," Georgetown Law Journal 76 (1987): 137.
8. Fletcher, Crime of Self-Defense, p. 83.
9. Fletcher, Crime of Self-Defense, p. 83.
10. Peter Winch, Ethics and Action (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972), pp. 141-50.
11. Fletcher, Rethinking Criminal Law, p. 483.
12. W. E. H. Lecky, Historyof European Morals, vol. 2 (New York: George Braziller, 1955).
13. C. D. Broad, The Mind and Its Place in Nature (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980).
14. Adam Smith, The Theory of the Moral Sentiments, part III, section II, chap. 2, paragraph 4 (1759).
15. See Joel Feinberg, Harm to Self (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), pp. 269-316.
16. Leo Katz, Bad Acts and GuiltyMinds (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1987), p. 155.
17. For a discussion of this metaphor, see "Causing Voluntary Actions," in Joel Feinberg, Doing and Deserving (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1970), pp. 152-86.
18. Katz, Bad Acts and GuiltyMinds, pp. 157-58.
19. Gerald Dworkin, "The Serpent Beguiled Me and I Did Eat: Entrapment and the Creation of Crime," Law and Philosophy 4 (1985): 33.
20. Bernard Williams, "Moral Luck," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, suppl, 50 (1976): 115-35
21. Thomas Nagel, "Moral Luck," in his Mortal Questions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979), pp. 24-38.
22. Nagel, "Moral Luck," pp. 29-30.
23. Nagel, "Moral Luck," pp. 33-34.
24. Michael Dummitt, Truth and Other Enigmas (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978), pp. 14-16.
25. Nagel, "Moral Luck," p. 34.
26. Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (New York: Viking, 1963).
27. Curtis Bok, Star Wormwood (New York: Knopf, 1959), pp. 138-40.
28. See, for example, Andrew Delbanco, The Death of Satan (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1955)
29. Tzvetan Todorov, Facing the Extreme, trans. Arthur Pollack and Abagail Pollack (New York: Holt, 1996).
30. Carl Goldberg, Speaking with the Devil (New York: Viking, 1996), p. 1.
31. See John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism (Oxford: Blackwell, 1949), chap. 5, for a discussion of the origin and interpretation of this famous slogan.
32. Ronald Milo, Immorality (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984), p. 8.
33. G. Rostrevor Hamilton, Hero or Fool? A Study of Milton's Satan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1940), p. 30.
34. C. S. Lewis, A Preface to Paradise Lost (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1941).
35. Charles Williams, Introduction to the English Poems of John Milton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1940).
36. Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, trans. J. O. O'Brien (New York: Random House, 1955), p. 91.
37. Milo, Immorality, p. 29.
38. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 3d ed. (Springfield, Mass.: Merriam- Webster, 1986), p. 1688.
39. David Lewis, "The Punishment That Leaves Something to Chance," Philosophy and Public Affairs 18 (1989): 53-67.
40. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th ed. (Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Association, 1994).
41. Hervey Cleckley, The Mask of Sanity, 5th ed. (Augusta, Ga.: Cleckley, 1988).
42. Robert D. Hare, Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths among Us (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993).
43. See, e.g., Theophrastus, Characters, trans. J. J. Edmonds (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1952).
44. Carl Hempel, "The Logic of Functional Analysis," in Symposium on Sociological Theory, ed. Llewelyn Gross (New York: Harper and Row, 1959), p. 99.
45. James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950), p. 114.
46. Bernard Williams, "Problems of the Self," in Moral Luck: Philosophical Papers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981).
47. Joel Feinberg, Harm to Others (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984), p. 68.
48. Michael Moore, "The Moral Worth of Retribution" in Responsibility, Character, and the Emotions, ed. Ferdinand Schoeman (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988), p. 99.
49. Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (New York: Penguin, 1944), p. 114.
50. James Fitzjames Stephen, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (London, 1878), pp. 149-50.
51. Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem, p. 127.
52. J. L. Austin, "A Plea for Excuses," in Freedom and Responsibility, ed. Herbert Morris (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1956), p. 6.
53. The example is from R. B. Brandt, "The Concept of a Moral Right and Its Function," Journal of Philosophy 29 (1983).
54. R. G. Frey, Interests and Rights: The Case against Animals (Oxford: Clarendon, 1980), p. 7.
55. E.g., W. D. Ross, The Right and the Good (Oxford: Clarendon, 1930), Appendix 1, "Rights," pp. 48-55.
56. E.g., Richard B. Brandt, Ethical Theory (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1959), pp. 17, 433-54.
57. Frey, Interests and Rights, p. 12.
58. H. L. A. Hart, "Bentham on Legal Rights," in Oxford Essays in Jurisprudence, 2d ser. A. W. B. Simpson (Oxford: Clarendon, 1973), esp. pp. 179-80
59. Carl Wellman, A Theory of Rights (Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Allanheld, 1985), pp. 91-94, and passim.
60. Wellman, Theory of Rights, pp. 42-51, 66-68, 147-57.
61. Robert Cover, Justice Accused: Antislaveryand the Judicial Process (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1975), p. 105.
62. Yale Kamisar, "Euthanasia Legislation: Some Non-Religious Objections," in Euthanasia and the Right to Death, ed. A. B. Downing (London: Owen, 1969), pp. 85-133. I attempt a reply to Kamisar in my paper "On Overlooking the Merits of the Individual Case: An Unpromising Approach to the Right to Die," Ratio Juris 4, no. 2 (July 1991): pp. 131-51.
63. Jeremy Bentham's Economic Writings, ed. W. Stark (London: Allen and Unwin, 1952), 1:333.
64. L. W. Sumner, The Moral Foundation of Rights (Oxford: Clarendon, 1987), p. 199.
65. Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind (New York: Barnes and Noble, 1949), p. 20.
66. Ronald Dworkin, "Hard Cases," in his Taking Rights Seriously (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971).
67. Compare John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971), pp. 54-117, with J. S. Mill, Utilitarianism (1861), chap. 1.
68. Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1979).
69. See Joel Feinberg, Harm to Self (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), pp. 87-94, on the differences between privacy, in the ordinary sense, and autonomy, or selfdetermination.
70. Lon L. Fuller, The Morality of Law (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1964), pp. 33-38.
71. Lloyd L. Weinreb, Natural Law and Justice (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987), p. 4.
72. Francis Lieber, Political Ethics, 2d ed. (Philadelphia, Pa.: Lippincott, 1874), 1:344, quoted in Cover, Justice Accused, p. 147.
73. Cover, Justice Accused, p. 62.
74. Wendell Phillips, The Constitution: A Pro-SlaveryCompact, quoted in Cover, Justice Accused, pp. 153, 178.
75. Cover, Justice Accused, p. 158.
76. Lysander Spooner, The Unconstitutionality of Slavery, quoted in Cover, Justice Accused, p. 158.
77. William James, "What Pragmatism Means," in his Essays in Pragmatism (New York: Hafner, 1948), p. 144.
78. Cover, Justice Accused, p. 156.
79. Brian Kelly, Adventures in Porkland: How Washington Wastes Your Moneyand WhyTheyWon't Stop (New York: Villard, 1992), pp. 15ff.
80. Thomas Nagel, "Symposium on the Public Benefits of the Arts and Humanities," Columbia Journal of Art and the Law 9 (1984): 236.
81. Nagel, "Symposium," p. 231.
82. G. E. Moore, Principia Ethica (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903), pp. 83-84.
83. George Santayana, "The Philosophy of Mr. Bertrand Russell," in Winds of Doctrine (London: Dent, and New York: Scribner, 1913), p. 146.
84. Nagel, "Symposium," p. 237.