Journal article
Legal Coercion, Respect and Reason-Responsive Agency
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Legal coercion seems morally problematic because it is susceptible to the Hegelian objection that it fails to respect individuals in a way that is 'due to them as men'. But in what sense does legal coercion fail to do so? And what are the grounds for this requirement to respect? This paper is an attempt to answer these questions. It argues that (a) legal coercion fails to respect individuals as reason-responsive agents; and (b) individuals ought to be respected as such in virtue of the fact t...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Accepted manuscript, pdf, 379.4KB)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1007/s10677-013-9486-4
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Funding
+ Leverhulme Trust
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Grant:
“Internal Constraints to Coercive Harm Prevention” Project (ID: ECF-2012-032
+ Arts and Heritage Research Council
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Grant:
“Preventive Justice” Project (ID: AH/H015655/1
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Springer Verlag Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Journal website
- Volume:
- 17
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- 847-859
- Publication date:
- 2013-12-30
- DOI:
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1572-8447
- ISSN:
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1386-2820
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pubs:479194
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- pubs:479194
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479194
- Deposit date:
- 2016-02-14
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- Copyright holder:
- Springer Science+Business Media
- Copyright date:
- 2013
- Notes:
- © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Springer at: [10.1007/s10677-013-9486-4]
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