The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law Volume 3: Harm to Self
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Various parts of this volume, from small passages to the major sections of whole chapters, have already been published in independent articles. I am grateful to the publishers for permission to republish these copyrighted materials here. Although my essay “Legal Paternalism,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 1, no. 1 (1971), has been entirely recast, several paragraphs of the original version survive intact in Chapters 17, 19, and 20. The final paragraphs of Chapter 18 and the bulk of Chapter 19 were part of the annual Civil Liberties Lectures at the University of Notre Dame Law School, which I delivered in 1982. The lectures were published under the title “Autonomy, Sovereignty, and Privacy: Moral Ideals in the Constitution?” in The Notre Dame Law Review, vol. 58 (1983). Section 7 of Chapter 25 was published originally as “Victims' Excuses: The Case of Fraudulently Procurred Consent,” in Ethics, vol. 6 (1986).
In the summer of 1984 I was fortunate to receive a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to conduct a Summer Seminar for College Teachers. Twelve gifted philosophers discussed this manuscript thoroughly and critically. I am grateful to every one of them for helpful suggestions, but I would like to acknowledge especially the assistance of Joan Callahan, Alan Fuchs, and Eugene Schlossberger, all of whom (alas) remain in disagreement with various parts of the book. In the autumn of 1984 the manuscript was further debated by an unusually talented group of graduate students in a seminar at the University of Arizona. Every one of them helped me too, but I am especially grateful to David Schmitz, Robert Schopp, and Rod Wiltshire. On this particular volume I received no help from Josiah S. Carberry. For that too I am grateful.
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