The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law: Volume 3: Harm to Self

af Joel (Professor of Philosophy Feinberg

This is the third volume of Joel Feinberg's highly regarded "The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law," a four-volume series in which he skillfully addresses a complex question: What kinds of conduct may the state make criminal without infringing on the moral autonomy of individual citizens? In "Harm to Self," Feinberg discusses various problems about self-inflicted harm, covering such topics as legal paternalism, personal sovereignty and its boundaries, voluntariness and assumptions of risk, consen... (Læs mere)