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Against Harm: Keating on the Soul of Tort Law

  • Jeffrey S. Helmreich EMAIL logo
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 23. Mai 2024

Abstract

An orthodox view of tort law sees it as primarily a means of assigning costs -- for economic reasons, on some views, or for moral reasons, on others. Gregory Keating compellingly challenges this orthodoxy, showing how tort is essentially a matter of setting prospective norms designed to protect rational agents from wrongful harms, to which it attaches special negative significance. Here I discuss two areas that may raise complications for this account -- strict liability and the tortious infliction of pain -- and propose a reconciliation.


Corresponding author: Jeffrey S. Helmreich, University of California, Irvine, USA, E-mail:
Thanks to Greg Keating for extremely helpful discussion.
Published Online: 2024-05-23
Published in Print: 2024-03-25

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