Author of Offense to Others, Harmless Wrongdoing^, and Harm to Others in the series "Moral Limits of the Criminal Law".
"An admirably lucid attempt to reinvoke and strengthen the liberal
core of Mill's theory....[The book's] great merit is to have
consistently argued the case against paternalistic legislation in
relation to specific areas of legal policy and legislative debate.
Not only does Feinberg convincingly make the case that no area of
interference into the domain of self-regarding action is
trivial...but he also persuasively pursues all the policy
implications and moral
connotations of the various contemporary legal test cases of the
contours of individual privacy."--Times Higher Education
Supplement
"Because of his focus on the moral limits of the criminal law,
Feinberg develops, with characteristic subtlety and illumination,
an account of what he calls failures of consent in two-party cases:
when does the consent on the part of the party harmed to the action
of another harming him or her fail to make the other's action
legally permissible and so justify criminal prohibitions of the
other's harmful conduct?....[A] first-rate work...of moral
philosophy...contain[s] richly detailed and illuminating
discussions of a host of issues concerning paternalism and
deserve[s] [a] central place...in the contemporary debate over
it."--Ethics
"An admirably lucid attempt to reinvoke and strengthen the liberal
core of Mill's theory....[The book's] great merit is to have
consistently argued the case against paternalistic legislation in
relation to specific areas of legal policy and legislative debate.
Not only does Feinberg convincingly make the case that no area of
interference into the domain of self-regarding action is
trivial...but he also persuasively pursues all the policy
implications and moral
connotations of the various contemporary legal test cases of the
contours of individual privacy."--Times Higher Education
Supplement
"Because of his focus on the moral limits of the criminal law,
Feinberg develops, with characteristic subtlety and illumination,
an account of what he calls failures of consent in two-party cases:
when does the consent on the part of the party harmed to the action
of another harming him or her fail to make the other's action
legally permissible and so justify criminal prohibitions of the
other's harmful conduct?....[A] first-rate work...of moral
philosophy...contain[s] richly detailed and illuminating
discussions of a host of issues concerning paternalism and
deserve[s] [a] central place...in the contemporary debate over
it."--Ethics
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