Drugs and the Limits of Liberalism : : Moral and Legal Issues /

Drugs and the Limits of Liberalism : : Moral and Legal Issues / / ed. by Pablo De Greiff.

Society's drug problem will persist, and debates over how to solve it will continue, getting nowhere, until we define our terms. This book is an effort to do just that—to parse the legal, moral, and philosophical underpinnings for any discussion of drug policy. Does liberal political theory, wi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
MitwirkendeR:
Connolly, William E.,
Elster, Jon,
Freeman, Samuel,
Greiff, Pablo De,
Moon, J. Donald,
Moore, Michael,
Pogge, Thomas,
HerausgeberIn:
De Greiff, Pablo,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1999
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.) :; 6 drawings
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Liberal Commitments and the Problem of Drugs
  • PART I. RATIONALITY AND DRUGS
  • CHAPTER ONE. Rationality and Addiction
  • CHAPTER TWO. The Irrationality of Addiction And Does It Matter?
  • PART II. LIBERAL POLITICAL MORALITY AND DRUGS
  • CHAPTER THREE. Liberty and Drugs
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Liberalism, Inalienability, and Rights of Drug Use
  • Part III. Democracy, Politics, and Drugs
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Drugs and Democracy
  • CHAPTER SIX. Drugs, National Sovereignty, and Democratic Legitimacy
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Drugs, the Nation, and Freelancing: Decoding the Moral Universe of William Bennett
  • Notes
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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