William A. Edmundson

An Introduction to Rights

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781107010987
• ISBN-10: 1107010985
• Artikelnr.: 34570450

Autorenporträt

William A. Edmundson is Regents' Professor of Law and of Philosophy at Georgia State University. He is the author of Three Anarchical Fallacies and is co-editor of The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory.

Inhaltsangabe

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.