The moral limits of the criminal law, Volume 3: Harm to self

This volume tackles the riddles associated with the commonly proposed principle called 'legal paternalism'. It evaluates (and rejects) the principle that it can be right to impose coercion on a person 'for his own good', whatever his own wishes in the matter

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Feinberg, Joel
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 1986, 1986
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Description
Summary:This volume tackles the riddles associated with the commonly proposed principle called 'legal paternalism'. It evaluates (and rejects) the principle that it can be right to impose coercion on a person 'for his own good', whatever his own wishes in the matter
Physical Description:xxiii, 420 p. ill
ISBN:9780199869473