PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Reprobation, Reasonable Person, Wolfenden Report
15 Apr 2016
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Objecive: society is enitled by means of its laws to take the same steps to preserve its moral code as it does to preserve its government and other essenial insituions (380) Devlin is responding to the indings of the wolfenden report which is essenially argued that: The indings of the wolfenden repot agreed that mills harm principle exhausted the legiimate grounds upon which the criminal law could limit individual liberty: i. e: vicimless crimes" such as prosituion, homosexual behaviour between consening adults, etc. Was not within the purview of the criminal law. Devlin objects to the reasoning of the wolfenden report. His argument is that there is no such thing as a private morality that can relevantly be disinguished from a public morality. 1: personal code (the bible, personal harm (drug use, personal concern (minutes of your book club) 1: public code, public harm, public concern (minutes of parliament)
