Philosophy, Morality, and Law. Observations Prompted by Professor Fuller's Novel Claim

Philosophy, Morality and Law – Observations Prompted by Professor Fuller’s Novel Claim

proposition, to the issue of racial discrimination? At what level of abstraction, in other words, should conventional morality be read? We believe that one who holds the abstract opinion but denies the more specific one holds inconsistent opinions. Does that entitle us, in computing the conventional morality, to disregard one of them? Which one? At least in part, our disagreement with those who...

Euthanasia, morality, and law.

Deception in Morality and Law

Drugs, Morality and the Law

 Arguments for and against the legal prohibition of drugs are surveyed. Various kinds of argument are identified and analysed: arguments against prohibition from a moral right to personal liberty; utilitarian and contractualist arguments for a right to personal liberty; arguments for prohibition from liberty-limiting principles (the harm principle, legal paternalism, legal moralism, Kan...

Law, liberty, and Christian morality

There is a long liberal political tradition of marshalling arguments aimed at convincing Christians that distinctively Christian reasons for issuing coercive laws are not sufficient to justify those laws. In the first part of this paper I argue that the two most popular of these arguments, attributable to Locke, will not reliably convince committed biblical Christians, nor, probably, should the...