This book rejects this view. The author first demonstrates why it is so important to understand the issues raised by plural and conflicting values. This includes a full discussion of Aristotle's treatment of the issues.

This is in keeping with the best impulses of democracy and is our only alternative to a complacency that is bound to favor the unjust.

This book argues against philosophical opponents, that we can determine our ends or goals rationally.

Taking medical and legal practice as key examples, Justin Oakley and Dean Cocking develop a rigorous articulation and defence of virtue ethics, contrasting it with other types of character-based ethical theories and showing that it offers a ...

This book analyses the transformation of socio-economic rights into constitutional rights, and their impact on public law and constitutional theory.

What is the role and value of virtue, emotion and imagination in law and legal reasoning? These new essays, by leading scholars of both law and philosophy, offer striking and exploratory answers to this neglected question.

In Lawyers and Fidelity to Law, Bradley Wendel introduces a new conception of legal ethics that addresses the concerns of lawyers and their critics alike.

This book is a distinctive and original contribution in which Kennedy's bold iconoclastic voice is given full rein.

The book is a successor to Problems of the Self, but whereas that volume dealt mainly with questions of personal identity, Moral Luck centres on questions of moral philosophy and the theory of rational action.