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Soul, Self & Society: The New Morality & the Modern State, by Edward L Rubin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, 464 pp (£20.49 hardback). ISBN: 9780199348657.

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Soul, Self & Society: The New Morality & the Modern State, by Edward L Rubin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, 464 pp (£20.49 hardback). ISBN: 9780199348657.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Rob Van Gestel
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Tilburg University
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Legal Studies , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , September 2016 , pp. 540 - 545
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27. Which is the title of a book, with famous Cruijff quotes, written by a Dutch member of the scientific council of government. See Winsemius, P Je gaat het pas zien als je het door hebt (Amsterdam: Balans, 2005).Google Scholar

28. Compare it to Cruijff's propositions: ‘coincidence is logical’ or ‘every advantage has its disadvantage’. Cruijff was not the only famous sportsman with such sayings. The also recently deceased baseball player Yogi Berra is another athlete who became known for his ‘Yogi-isms’, such as ‘in theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.’

29. By those who believe in a morality of higher purpose, homosexuality is seen as sinful because gay sex is by definition a matter of self-fulfilment instead as a means of procreation, while the rights claimed by gay people to marry, for example, are seen as an infringement upon traditional family values. Abortion and euthanasia are often seen as going against an act of God, who would be the only higher (moral) force allowed to decide over life and death.

30. C de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu The Spirit of Laws (1748) ch 11.

31. A de Tocqueville Democracy in America (New York: Vintage, 1956) vol II, ch X, p 548 ff.

32. See http://www.newgeography.com/content/004028-the-dutch-rethink-welfare-state (accessed 19 May 2016).

33. It is almost needless to say that major disagreement will exist regarding the extent to which these crimes are actually victimless.

34. See http://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/inziendocument?id=ECLI:NL:RBDHA:2015:7196&keyword=urgenda (accessed 19 May 2016).

35. Bobbitt, P The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History (New York: Knopf, 2002) p 228 Google Scholar.

36. G Hardin ‘The tragedy of the commons’ (1968) 162 (no 3859) Science 1243–1248.