Freedom and Fulfillment : : Philosophical Essays / / Joel Feinberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Feinberg, Joel,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (374 p.)

Dealing with a diverse set of problems in practical and theoretical ethics, these fourteen essays, three of them previously unpublished, reconfirm Joel Feinberg's leading position in the field of legal philosophy. With a clarity and humor that will be familiar to readers of his other works, Feinberg writes on topics including "wrongful life" suits in the law of torts, or whether there is any sense in the remark that a person is so badly off that he would be better off not existing at all; the morality of abortion; educational options; free expression; civil disobedience; and the duty of easy rescue in criminal law. He continues with a three-part defense of moral rights in the abstract, a discussion of voluntary euthanasia, and an inquiry into arguments of various kinds for not granting legal rights in enforcement of a person's acknowledged moral rights. This collection concludes with two essays dealing with concepts used in appraising the whole of a person's life: absurdity and self-fulfillment, and their interplay.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE Wrongful Life and the Counterfactual Element in Harming (1986) -- CHAPTER TWO Abortion (1979 -- CHAPTER THREE The Child's Right to an Open Future (1980) -- CHAPTER FOUR Sentiment and Sentimentality in Practical Ethics (1982) -- CHAPTER FIVE Limits to the Free Expression of Opinion (1975) -- CHAPTER SIX Civil Disobedience in the Modern World (1979) -- CHAPTER SEVEN The Moral and Legal Responsibility of the Bad Samaritan (1984) -- CHAPTER EIGHT In Defense of Moral Rights: Their Bare Existence (1990) -- CHAPTER NINE In Defense of Moral Rights: Their Social Importance (1990) -- CHAPTER TEN In Defense of Moral Bights: Their Constitutional Relevance (1990) -- CHAPTER ELEVEN An Unpromising Approach to the "Right to Die" (1991) -- CHAPTER TWELVE Seven Modes of Reasoning That Can Justify Overlooking the Merits of the Individual Case-When the Facts Are Right (1991) -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Absurd Self-Fulfillment (1980) -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Absurd and the Comic: Why Does Some Incongruity Please? (1989) -- Index