Private Law and Public Illusion
2 and 3 May 2016
Liam B. Murphy (New York University)
Lecture I: Artificial Morality
Lecture II: The Persistence of an Illusion
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Campus Westend, Hörsaalzentrum HZ6
In the public at large, property and contract law are commonly thought to reflect moral proprietary and
promissory rights. Contemporary philosophers are mostly skeptical about natural property rights, but not about promissory rights. I argue that contract and promise, no less than property, can only be justified instrumentally – by appeal to the social good that these conventional practices produce. The etiology of the tenacious and harmful public illusion that the law of the market reflects individual natural rights deserves investigation.
I argue that the inevitably deontological form of contract and property law plays a significant role in sustaining this illusion.
Liam B. Murphy ist Inhaber der Herbert Peterfreund Professur für Recht und Professor für Philosophie an der New York University.
Lecture I: Artificial Morality
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Lecture II: The Persistence of an Illusion
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Cluster of Excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders"
Die Co-Sprecherin des Forschungszentrums "Normative Ordnungen" Prof. Nicole Deitelhoff erhält eine LOEWE-Spitzen-Professur des Landes Hessen. Wir freuen uns, dass diese Förderung ihre Forschungen zur Produktivität von Konflikten auch weiterhin fruchtbar machen wird. Weitere Informationen: 
