Rights and Reason: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Rights

ISBN-13: 9781902683737 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 224 str.

Gorman, Jonathan

Opis

The author of this work shows how rival understandings of rights are bound up with positions in epistemology, metaphysics and the theory of human nature and for a proper understanding of the rights debate the discussion must be located within much more wide-ranging philosophical discussions.

Spis treści

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Plato 3. Hobbes 4. Locke 5. Human motivation 6. Human value 7. Hohfeld's analysis 8. Analysis of Hohfeld's analysis 9. Change 10. Inconsistency 11. Understanding rights 12. The rights-based approach 13. Duty and justice 14. Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index

O autorze

Jonathan Gorman