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‘Sins and Crimes’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Robert L. Schwager
Affiliation:
State University of New York College at Cortland

Abstract

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Discussion
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1975

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References

1 Philosophy, 43, 1968, pp. 3850.Google Scholar

2 See especially Hart, , Law, Liberty and Morality (London, 1963).Google Scholar

3 See Devlin, , The Enforcement of Morals (London, 1965).Google Scholar

4 The claim that all such acts would be illegal is, of course, a gross exaggeration. Even in a Millian society there would be good reasons for not making all immoral acts illegal. This exaggeration, made for the sake of simplicity, does not affect the argument.