Moral Rights and Political FreedomRowman & Littlefield, 1995 - 224 pàgines Seeking a way out of today's bewildering rush of rights claims, Tara Smith's Moral Rights and Political Freedom offers a systematic account of the nature and foundations of rights. The book carefully elucidates what political freedom is and demonstrates why it should be protected by rights. Smith's thesis is that rights are teleological: respect for freedom is necessary for individuals' flourishing or eudaimonia. Smith illustrates how many alleged rights would actually undermine that objective. Her decisive refutation of the assumption that conflicts between rights are inevitable--demonstrating how such conflicts are theoretically incoherent and practically self-defeating--should go a long way toward resolving many contemporary disputes about rights. |
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... Chapter 1 elaborates the essential nature of rights . It is a symp- tom of our failure to have adequately grappled with the subject that philosophers have rarely ventured straightforward definitions of rights . While authors have been ...
... Chapter 1 elaborates the essential nature of rights . It is a symp- tom of our failure to have adequately grappled with the subject that philosophers have rarely ventured straightforward definitions of rights . While authors have been ...
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... Chapters 4 and 5 explain how my theory overcomes the inad- equacies of deontological and consequentialist conceptions of rights . Chapter 4 presents the principal shortcomings of these traditional accounts . The deontological model ...
... Chapters 4 and 5 explain how my theory overcomes the inad- equacies of deontological and consequentialist conceptions of rights . Chapter 4 presents the principal shortcomings of these traditional accounts . The deontological model ...
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... chapter 5 , I elabo- rate on the teleological character of rights . Teleological rights are goal - based insofar as they serve a practical purpose , but they are principled insofar as the sought goal can never veto such rights . What ...
... chapter 5 , I elabo- rate on the teleological character of rights . Teleological rights are goal - based insofar as they serve a practical purpose , but they are principled insofar as the sought goal can never veto such rights . What ...
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... chapter 7. There , I maintain that the single potential impediment to freedom is others ' use or threat of physical force . This is the only external obstacle that has sufficient power to displace a person's governance of her actions ...
... chapter 7. There , I maintain that the single potential impediment to freedom is others ' use or threat of physical force . This is the only external obstacle that has sufficient power to displace a person's governance of her actions ...
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... chapter 14. The earliest use of the inflation image that I know of is in Ayn Rand , " Man's Rights , " Capitalism : The Unknown Ideal ( New York : New Ameri- can Library , 1967 ) 324 . 2. Vintage per se , of course , is not the test of ...
... chapter 14. The earliest use of the inflation image that I know of is in Ayn Rand , " Man's Rights , " Capitalism : The Unknown Ideal ( New York : New Ameri- can Library , 1967 ) 324 . 2. Vintage per se , of course , is not the test of ...
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Positive Rights in a Republic of Talk: A Survey and a Critique Thomas Halper Previsualització no disponible - 2003 |