William J Talbott

Human Rights and Human Well-Being

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, William J. Talbott examines the meaning of moral progress, claiming that improvements to our moral or legal practices are changes that, when evaluated as a practice, contribute to equitably promoting well-being. Talbott completes the project begun in his 2005 book of identifying the human rights that should be universal and identifies a list of fourteen robust, inalienable human rights.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9780195173482
• ISBN-10: 0195173481
• Artikelnr.: 36193582

Autorenporträt

William J. Talbott is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington, where he has been teaching since 1989. He has published articles in moral and political philosophy, especially the philosophy of human rights, philosophy of law, epistemology, and rational choice theory. This is the second of two volumes on human rights. The first was Which Rights Should Be Universal? (OUP, 2005).

Inhaltsangabe

1.: The Consequentialist Project for Human Rights
2.: . Exceptions to Libertarian Natural Rights
3.: The Main Principle
4.: What is Well-Being? What is Equity?
5.: The Two Deepest Mysteries in Moral Philosophy
6.: Security Rights
7.: Epistemological Foundations for the Priority of Autonomy Rights
8.: The Millian Epistemological Argument for Autonomy Rights
9.: Property Rights, Contract Rights, and Other Economic Rights
10.: Democratic Rights
11.: Equity Rights
12.: The Most Reliable Judgment Standard for Weak Paternalism
13.: Liberty Rights and Privacy Rights
14.: Clarifications and Responses to Objections
15.: Conclusion
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Notes