TY  - BOOK
AU  - Foster,Charles
AU  - Herring,Jonathan
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Altruism, Welfare and the Law
T2  - SpringerBriefs in Law,
SN  - 9783319216058
AV  - K201-487 
U1  - 340.1 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Springer
KW  - law
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Law
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Private international law
KW  - Conflict of laws
KW  - International law
KW  - Comparative law
KW  - psychology
KW  - Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History
KW  - Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law
KW  - Law and Psychology
N1  - 1. Introduction -- 2. Altruism and Community: A Biological and Philosophical History -- 3. Rethinking the Welfare and Best Interest Principles -- 4. What Do the Courts Do? -- 5. Putting it Into Practice
N2  - This book is an assault on the notion that it is empirically accurate and legally and philosophically satisfactory to see humans as atomistic entities. It contends that our welfare is inextricably entangled with that of others, and accordingly law and ethics, in determining our best interests, should recognise the central importance of relationality, the performance of obligations, and (even apparently injurious) altruism
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21605-8
ER  -