Ethical Rationalism and
the Law
by Patrick Capps (Editor),
Shaun D. Pattinson (Editor)
What role does reason have
to play in determining what, if anything, is morally right? What role does
morality have to play in law? Perhaps the most controversial answer to these
fundamental questions is that reason supports a supreme principle of both morality
and legality. The contributors to this book cast a fresh critical eye over the
coherence of modern approaches to ethical rationalism within law, and reflect
on the intellectual history on which it builds. The contributors then take the
debate beyond the traditional concerns of legal theory into areas such as the
relationship between morality and international law, and the impact of
ethically controversial medical innovations on legal understanding. [Subject:
Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Legal Philosophy]
