Coercion (eBook)

Alan Wertheimer (Autor)

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2014
334 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5929-0 (ISBN)

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Wertheimer attempts to move beyond previous theories of coercion by conducting a fairly extensive survey of the way in which cases involving coercion have been treated by American courts. This impressive project occupies the first half of the book, where he makes a convincing case that there is a fairly unified 'theory of coercion' at work in adjudication, past and present. This legal theory, however, is not entirely adequate for the purposes of social and political philosophy, and the last half of the book develops Wertheimer's more comprehensive philosophical theory.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: acquittal • Actus reus • Adequate remedy • Adverse party • Affirmative defense • alford plea • Anecdote • Assumption of risk • attempt • Battery (crime) • blackmail • Brady v. United States • Breach of Contract • bribery • Brown v. Mississippi • Business Ethics • Chilling Effect • Civil disobedience • Coercion • Consequentialism • Consideration • Constitutionality • Contempt of Court • contextualism • Contract • Contributory negligence • Crime • Criminal Law • Culpability • defamation • defendant • Defense (legal) • Defense of infancy • Deliberation • De Minimis • Deterrence (legal) • Disbarment • Duress • embezzlement • Entrapment • false confession • fee tail • Finality (law) • Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution • Fraud • freedom of speech • Impartiality • Impossibility • Imprisonment • Indication (medicine) • insanity defense • Intention (criminal law) • intimidation • Johnson v. Zerbst • Justifiable homicide • Just price • Legalization • Legitimate expectation • manslaughter • Miranda warning • misdemeanor • Misrepresentation • Morality • Moral luck • moral responsibility • Necessity • Negative Liberty • negligence • Non-cognitivism • North Carolina v. Alford • Objection (law) • Original Position • paternalism • perjury • plea • plea bargain • Precedent • presumption • Prosecutor • public figure • Reflective equilibrium • Rule utilitarianism • R v Dudley and Stephens • Santobello v. New York • Self-Incrimination • stand-your-ground law • stipulation • Tax evasion • The Death of Contract • Theft • Throffer • Tort • Torture • Trial by ordeal • Turn state's evidence • unconscionability • Utilitarianism • Volenti non fit injuria • voluntariness • Waiver
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5929-8 / 1400859298
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5929-0 / 9781400859290