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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... protection that has historically made them so desirable . Traditionally , rights were regarded as decisive moral arbiters . In- voking a bona fide right would definitively settle any controversy as to whether certain treatment of a ...
... protection that has historically made them so desirable . Traditionally , rights were regarded as decisive moral arbiters . In- voking a bona fide right would definitively settle any controversy as to whether certain treatment of a ...
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... protect against widens the variety of benefits that rights are expected to deliver . Respect for " welfare rights ... protection . All of this corroborates the contention that rights ' current emi- nence is illusory . Genuine rights are ...
... protect against widens the variety of benefits that rights are expected to deliver . Respect for " welfare rights ... protection . All of this corroborates the contention that rights ' current emi- nence is illusory . Genuine rights are ...
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... protect one thing : freedom of action . This limited pur- pose provides the standard necessary for principled discrimination between competing rights claims . In the face of any alleged right , the question to consider will be : would ...
... protect one thing : freedom of action . This limited pur- pose provides the standard necessary for principled discrimination between competing rights claims . In the face of any alleged right , the question to consider will be : would ...
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... protect . Let me now provide a slightly more detailed preview of what lies ahead . 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 ...
... protect . Let me now provide a slightly more detailed preview of what lies ahead . 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 ...
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... protect a person's pursuit of well- being . Recognition of rights thus safeguards self - interested behavior . Moreover , the duties that other persons bear correlative to an indiv- idual's rights , which forbid infringing on a ...
... protect a person's pursuit of well- being . Recognition of rights thus safeguards self - interested behavior . Moreover , the duties that other persons bear correlative to an indiv- idual's rights , which forbid infringing on a ...
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Positive Rights in a Republic of Talk: A Survey and a Critique Thomas Halper Previsualització no disponible - 2003 |