Rights

ISBN-13: 9780333361368 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 258 str.

Peter Jones

Opis

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary thought about rights. It examines what it is to have a right and what is distinctive about political moralities that give a fundamental place to rights. The varied grounds and implications of claiming rights to liberties, socio-economic rights and democratic rights are considered and the book concludes with an examination of the theoretical objections and the practical difficulties that proponents of rights have to confront.

Spis treści

Introduction.- Forms of Right Benefits, Choices and Titles.- The Morality of Rights.- Natural Rights and Human Rights.- Justifying Human Rights.- Freedom, Autonomy and Rights Socio-economic Rights.- Democracy, Groups and Rights.- Some Doubts and Difficulties.- Conclusion.