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Fair Governance

Paternalism and Perfectionism

by Francis H. Buckley

  • Hardback
  • 248 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.8 cm

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For scholars and students of ethics and law

Examines legal interference with personal choices

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Fair Governance explores the balance between state power and personal freedom.

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Fair Governance: The Enforcement of Morals is a study of legal interference with individual preferences and will canvass the interdisciplinary literature in economics, psychology, philosophy, and law. It discusses the particular conditions necessary for the state to legally interfere with our freedom of choice, whether it be to either satisfy our individual pursuit of happiness (perfectionism) or to prevent us from making immoral choices (paternalism). Relatively few philosophers know much of the parallel literature on this central problem of ethics; while many legal scholars are acquainted with the psychological literature on judgment biases, they are frequently unfamiliar with the philosophical literature on perfectionism. Francis H. Buckley carefully links these two notions of state power with recent empirical literature on judgment biases and happiness studies and surveys the literature, arguing for a nuanced form of social perfectionism, one which seeks to promote the kind of liberal nationalism found in the United States.
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  • Author

    Francis H. Buckley

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    March 2009

  • Weight

    523g

  • Page Count

    248

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780195341263

  • ISBN-10

    0195341260

  • Eden Code

    4562505

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