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Human rights and human well-being /

In the last half of the twentieth century, legalized segregation ended in the southern United States, apartheid ended in South Africa, women in many parts of the world came to be recognized as having equal rights with men, persons with disabilities came to be recognized as having rights to develop a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Talbott, William. J.
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:Oxford political philosophy
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The consequentialist project for human rights
  • Exceptions to libertarian natural rights
  • The main principle
  • What is well-being? What is equity?
  • The two deepest mysteries in moral philosophy
  • Security rights
  • Epistemological foundations for the priority of autonomy rights
  • The millian epistemological argument for autonomy rights
  • Property rights, contract rights, and other economic rights
  • Democratic rights
  • Equity rights
  • The most reliable judgment standard for soft, legal paternalism
  • Liberty rights and privacy rights
  • Clarifications and responses to objections.