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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| Keywords | Law Critique Ethics Good Evil Mercy killing Arendt |
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| DOI | 10.1007/s11572-013-9257-2 |
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