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An introduction to rights /

"A thoroughly updated second edition that is an accessible introduction to the history, logic, moral implications, and political tendencies of the idea of rights"--

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Edmundson, William A.
التنسيق: Printed Book
اللغة:English
منشور في: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
الطبعة:2nd ed.
سلاسل:Cambridge introductions to philosophy and law.
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  • Machine generated contents note: Part I. The First Expansionary Era: 1. The prehistory of rights; 2. The rights of man: the enlightenment; 3. Mischievous nonsense?; 4. The nineteenth century: consolidation and retrenchment; 5. The conceptual neighborhood of rights: Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld; Part II. The Second Expansionary Era: 6. The universal declaration, and a revolt against utilitarianism; 7. The nature of rights: 'choice' theory and 'interest' theory; 8. A right to do wrong? two conceptions of moral rights; 9. The pressure of consequentialism; 10. What is interference?; 11. The future of rights; 12. Conclusion.