Moral Goals and Legal Coercion: Philosophical and Legal Arguments of Patrick Devlin

The paper analyzes the arguments of the British jurist P. Devlin on the possibility of ensuring the achievement of moral goals by legal means. The views of P. Devlin and his debate with H. L. A. Hart gave rise to deep discussions on the relationship between moral and legal prescriptions in legisl...

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Main Author: A. B. Didikin
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Published: Omsk State Technical University, Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education 2021-09-01
Series:Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"
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spelling doaj.art-1641dcd7c3be411eb7e300d5abcfa9ec2022-12-21T18:28:48ZengOmsk State Technical University, Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher EducationОмский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"2542-04882541-79832021-09-0163646810.25206/2542-0488-2021-6-3-64-68Moral Goals and Legal Coercion: Philosophical and Legal Arguments of Patrick DevlinA. B. Didikin0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0808-8900National Research University Higher School of EconomicsThe paper analyzes the arguments of the British jurist P. Devlin on the possibility of ensuring the achievement of moral goals by legal means. The views of P. Devlin and his debate with H. L. A. Hart gave rise to deep discussions on the relationship between moral and legal prescriptions in legislation and the search for moral grounds for legal norms and practice of its application. The paper also reconstructs P. Devlin’s arguments on the specifics of the application of the principle of harm compensation in assessing actions that contradict public moralityhttps://www.omgtu.ru/general_information/media_omgtu/journal_of_omsk_research_journal/files/arhiv/2021/%D0%A2.%206,%20%E2%84%96%203%20(%D0%9E%D0%98%D0%A1)/64-68%20%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%20%D0%90.%20%D0%91..pdflawpublic moralitysocietyp. devlinh. l. a. hartj. s. mill
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Moral Goals and Legal Coercion: Philosophical and Legal Arguments of Patrick Devlin
Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"
law
public morality
society
p. devlin
h. l. a. hart
j. s. mill
title Moral Goals and Legal Coercion: Philosophical and Legal Arguments of Patrick Devlin
title_full Moral Goals and Legal Coercion: Philosophical and Legal Arguments of Patrick Devlin
title_fullStr Moral Goals and Legal Coercion: Philosophical and Legal Arguments of Patrick Devlin
title_full_unstemmed Moral Goals and Legal Coercion: Philosophical and Legal Arguments of Patrick Devlin
title_short Moral Goals and Legal Coercion: Philosophical and Legal Arguments of Patrick Devlin
title_sort moral goals and legal coercion philosophical and legal arguments of patrick devlin
topic law
public morality
society
p. devlin
h. l. a. hart
j. s. mill
url https://www.omgtu.ru/general_information/media_omgtu/journal_of_omsk_research_journal/files/arhiv/2021/%D0%A2.%206,%20%E2%84%96%203%20(%D0%9E%D0%98%D0%A1)/64-68%20%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%20%D0%90.%20%D0%91..pdf
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