Ethics and History: Can Critical Lawyers Talk of Good and Evil? [Book Review]

Criminal Law and Philosophy 9 (3):443-456 (2015)
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This essay explores what we might mean by good and evil, and argues that these terms remain salient for a critical, socio-historical, understanding of criminal law. It draws upon a meta-ethics of freedom and solidarity to explain what good means in recent mercy killing cases in England and Wales, and what evil means in Arendt’s phrase, the ‘banality of evil’

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