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A Moral Defense of Recreational Drug Use

DOI: 10.1057/9781137528681

ISBN: 978-1-349-55249-8

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 30, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction

Lovering, Rob

Pages: 1 –32

[Is recreational drug use morally wrong? In this book, I examine arguments for the view that it is and contend that, by and large, they do not succeed.]
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Chapter 2Harm-Based Arguments

Lovering, Rob

Pages: 33 –65

[In this chapter and the next, I evaluate nonreligious harm-based arguments against recreational drug use. Again, harm-based arguments ground the wrongness of recreational drug use in a claim about the harm it involves. What differentiates one harm-based argument from another is the type of harm...
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Chapter 3Harm-Based Arguments

Lovering, Rob

Pages: 67 –92

[Having covered a number of self-regarding harm-based arguments against recreational drug use, let us now turn our attention to other-regarding harm-based arguments against recreational drug use. But before doing so, it would be prudent to state at the outset that many instances of recreational...
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Chapter 4Non-Harm-Based Arguments

Lovering, Rob

Pages: 93 –126

[In this chapter and the next, I evaluate nonreligious non-harm-based arguments against recreational drug use. The arguments covered in this chapter are linked by the concepts of instrumentalization, addiction, and degradation, while the arguments covered in the next chapter are linked by the...
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Chapter 5Non-Harm-Based Arguments

Lovering, Rob

Pages: 127 –148

[In this chapter, I continue evaluating non-harm-based arguments against recreational drug use. The non-harm-based arguments of the previous chapter were linked by the concepts of instrumentalization, addiction, and degradation. Here, they are linked by the concept of pleasure; at least, they are...
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Chapter 6Religious Arguments

Lovering, Rob

Pages: 149 –162

[Thus far, I have evaluated nonreligious harm-based and non-harm-based arguments against recreational drug use. In this chapter, I evaluate religious harm-based and non-harm-based arguments against recreational drug use. The importance of doing so is grounded in the powerful role that religion...
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Chapter 7Afterword

Lovering, Rob

Pages: 163 –168

[We have arrived at the end. Having done so, I would be remiss not to reiterate a claim from Chapter 1: the moral, prudential, and legal statuses of recreational drug use are, in principle, distinct. Even if my moral defense of recreational drug use is sound, then, one may still deem recreational...

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