A Philosophical History of Rights

ISBN-13: 9780765805423 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 384 str.

Gary B. Herbert

Opis

Since the seventeenth century, concern in the Western world for the welfare of the individual has been articulated most often as a concern for his rights. The modern conception of individual rights resulted from abandonment of ancient, value-laced ideas of nature and their replacement by the modern, mathematically transparent idea of nature that has room only for individuals, often in confl ict. In A Philosophical History of Rights, Gary B. Herbert reviews the historical evolution of the concept and the transformation of the problems through which the concept is defi ned.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments, Introduction, 1. Ancient Rights, 2. Christianity and the Transition to Modem, Natural Right, 3. The Modem Foundations of Right, 4. The Sociability of Right: Rousseau, Kant, Fichte, 5. Hegel: Rights and Ethical Existence, 6. The Post-Ontological History of Rights, 7. Postscript, Bibliography, Index

O autorze

Gary Herbert