The Topics Encompassed By Virtue Jurisprudence
Among the topics encompassed by virtue jurisprudence are the following:
- Virtue ethics has implications for an account of the proper ends of legislation. If the aim of law is to make citizens virtuous (as opposed to maximizing utility or realizing a set of moral rights), what are the implications for the content of the laws?
- Virtue ethics has implications for legal ethics. Current approaches to legal ethics emphasize deontological moral theory, i.e. duties to clients and respect for client autonomy, and these deontological approaches are reflected in the various codes of professional conduct that have been devised for lawyers, judges, and legislators.
- Accounts of the virtue of justice (in particular, Aristotle and Aquinas’s theories of natural justice) have implications for debates between natural lawyers and legal positivists over the nature of law.
- A virtue-centered theory of judging, which describes the particular excellences required by judges.
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Famous quotes containing the words encompassed and/or virtue:
“A witch is one who worketh by the Devil or by some curious art either healing or revealing things secret, or foretelling things to come which the Devil hath devised to ensnare men’s souls withal unto damnation. The conjurer, the enchanter, the sorcerer, the diviner, and whatever other sort there is encompassed within this circle.”
—George Gifford (16th century)
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