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PLASTIC TREES AND GLADIATORS: LIBERALISM AND AESTHETIC REGULATION
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The hallmark of modern liberalism is its embrace of the Millian harm principle and its antipathy to legal moralism. In this article I consider whether aesthetic regulations can be justified under the harm principle as that principle has been elaborated by Joel Feinberg. I conclude that aesthetic and other regulations that most liberals regard as unproblematic are actually instances of legal moralism.
Title: PLASTIC TREES AND GLADIATORS: LIBERALISM AND AESTHETIC REGULATION
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The hallmark of modern liberalism is its embrace of the Millian harm principle and its antipathy to legal moralism.
In this article I consider whether aesthetic regulations can be justified under the harm principle as that principle has been elaborated by Joel Feinberg.
I conclude that aesthetic and other regulations that most liberals regard as unproblematic are actually instances of legal moralism.
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