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Risk
In Dennis Patterson (ed.), A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory. Oxford, UK: Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 578–589 (2010)
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This chapter contains sections titled: The Nature of Risk The Moral Significance of Risk.Author's Profile
risk permeating modern societies ‐ ubiquitous risks that are morally cognizable risks accompanying life ‐ as danger and peril are not new to man modern legal systems and regimes of tort law and administrative regulation ‐ coping with risks without grasping what risk is ‐ instituting risk imposition standards or regulation in law, being impossible nature of risk two families of probability theory ‐ person's degree of belief or level of certainty that some event will occur moral significance of risk Thomas Nagel's conceptions of life ‐ biological and normative in pure risk cases risk imposition is like laying a trap ‐ diminishing the individual's autonomy material harm ‐ morally significant, adversely affecting what materially happens to one
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