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Virtue Jurisprudence

By jlutz99

A new book titled Virtue Jurisprudence by Colin Farrelly and Lawrence Solum has just been published.  Here's the publisher's description:

In moral theory, virtue ethics offers a third way - an alternative to the deontological and consequentialist approaches that dominated modern moral philosophy until very recently. What would happen if we transplanted virtue ethics into normative legal theory? The essays in this anthology are part of a growing body of work that answers that question. According to the advocates of virtue jurisprudence, the final end of law is to promote human flourishing - to enable humans to lead excellent lives. Can the virtue ethics tradition really help us address the fundamental concerns of legal theory-like judicial review, criminal and tort law? The authors of this volume believe it can. By shedding the constraints of consequentialist and deontological theories, these authors illustrate how the virtue ethics tradition can enrich legal theory in distinctive and diverse ways.

Posted by Jon Lutz

Full post as published by FSU College of Law Library Blog on September 26, 2007 (boomark / email).