Right, freedom and morality

This book, which is distinguished by directness and clarity of presentation, considers the application of criminal law to ensure compliance with moral norms, especially in the field of sexual morality. This topic arouses the interest of lawyers and philosophers of law from publishing the report of the Wolfenden Commission in 1957. This book is a polemic with British jurisdictions James Fitzjims Stephen and Patrick Devilin, who criticized the thesis of John Stuart Mill, which is the “only goal for which the force may be for the sake of power It is legitimately applied to any member of a civilized society against his will - this is the prevention of harm to others. " Hart considers it the most important problems of freedom, tolerance, the right to private life and sexual morality, the grounds and limits of state intervention into the life of citizens.
The book served as a great incentive for further discussion of this problem and the formation of modern concepts of the “principle of harm”, legal paternalism and legal moralism