Moral Rights and Their Grounds

ISBN-13: 9781138102590 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 258 str.

David Alm

Opis

This book offers a novel theory of rights based on two distinct views. The first—the value view of rights—argues that for a person to have a right is to be valuable in a certain way, or to have a value property.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: The Value View  1. The Value View: The Basics  2. The Components of a Claim  3. In Defense of the Value View  Part II: The Agency View  4. The Agency View: The Basics  5. The Components of Owing: Exclusionary Reasons and Relationality  6. How Agency Generates Rights  7. The Strength of Rights  8. The Moral Significance of Rights  9. The Agency View and Right Loss  Part III: Exercise-Based Rights  10. Rejecting the Agency View: The Options  11. Exercise-Based Rights: The Very Idea  12. Exercise-Based Rights: Why Accept Them?

O autorze

David Alm is an associate professor of practical philosophy at the University of Lund, Sweden. He works mostly in moral and social philosophy, and has published extensively in these fields.