Direito contratual, justiça distributiva e virtudes cívicas

The paper answers to Seana Shiffrin’s criticisms against contract law. Shiffrin states that lenience towards breach renders contract law divergent from moral prescriptions respecting promises, thus jeopardizing citizens’ interest in moral development and the development of an egalitarian culture. It...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor: Leandro Martins Zanitelli
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2018
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Repositório:Repositório Institucional da UFMG
Idioma:português
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ufmg.br:1843/38247
Acesso em linha:https://doi.org/10.5752/P.2177-6342.2018v9n18p406-424
http://hdl.handle.net/1843/38247
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5734-4996
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Contratos
Shiffrin
Inadimplemento
Virtudes cívicas
Justiça distributiva
Adimplemento e inadimplemento
Descrição
Resumo:The paper answers to Seana Shiffrin’s criticisms against contract law. Shiffrin states that lenience towards breach renders contract law divergent from moral prescriptions respecting promises, thus jeopardizing citizens’ interest in moral development and the development of an egalitarian culture. It is argued that Shiffrin is mistaken by assuming that more severe laws necessarily give rise to virtuous citizens. Shiffrin’s criticisms are valuable, nonetheless, in stressing law’s influence over citizens’ preferences, a point commonly neglected by contract law theories associated with distributive justice.