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"This book offers an advanced introduction to central questions in legal philosophy. What factors determine the content of the law in force? What makes a normative system a legal system? How does law beyond the state differ from domestic law? What kind of moral force does law have? These are all questions about the nature of law. The most important existing views are introduced, but the aim is not to survey the existing literature. Rather, this book introduces the subject by stepping back from the fray to sketch the big picture, to show just what is at stake in these old debates. Legal philosophy has become somewhat arid and inward looking. In part this is because the disagreement between the main camps on the important questions is apparently intractable. The main aim of the book is to suggest both a diagnosis and a proper practical response to this situation of intractable disagreement about questions that do matter"--

Law --- Jurisprudence --- Philosophy --- Droit --- Philosophie --- Jurisprudence. --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie. --- Law - Philosophy

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Murphy argues that the problem with utilitarianism is not that it requires too much sacrifice, but rather in our nonideal world of partial compliance it unfairly requires those who do comply to shoulder the shares of the noncompliers as well.

Benevolence. --- Social ethics. --- Utilitarianism. --- Ethics --- Hedonism --- Philosophy --- Social problems --- Sociology --- Conduct of life

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In a capitalist economy, taxes are the most important instrument by which the political system puts into practice a conception of economic or distributive justice. This book aims to bring together the philosophical discussions of justice with the complex debates about tax policy that go on in practical politics, in economics, and in law.

Tax incidence --- Taxation --- Distributive justice --- Social aspects --- Duties --- Fee system (Taxation) --- Tax policy --- Tax reform --- Taxation, Incidence of --- Taxes --- Finance, Public --- Revenue --- Tax incidence - United States. --- Distributive justice - United States. --- Taxation - Social aspects - United States.