Document Type
Working Paper
Repository Date
2008
Keywords
Judge Posner, morality, infanticide, slavery, suttee, female genital mutilation, Holocaust, moral relativism
Subject Categories
Jurisprudence | Law | Legal History
Abstract
Judge Richard Posner locates his moral theory between moral absolutism and the "anything goes" kind of moral relativism. He analyzes whether five contested topics are subject to useful moral debate: infanticide, slavery, suttee, female genital mutilation, and the Holocaust. Each topic presents a different perspective on his own moral theory. But each one fails in a different way to place his own moral theory on a sound footing.
Repository Citation
D'Amato, Anthony, "Contested Morality: Judge Posner on Infanticide, Slavery, Suttee, Female Genital Mutilation, and the Holocaust" (2008). Faculty Working Papers. 162.
https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/facultyworkingpapers/162
