Rights: Concepts and Contexts

✍ Scribed by Brian Bix

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 604
Series: The International Library of Essays on Rights
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Rights: Concepts and Contexts contains the central works of recent scholarship on the nature of rights, with contributions by some of the most prominent contemporary theorists in moral, legal, and political philosophy, including Joseph Raz, Robert Alexy, Jeremy Waldron, Morton Horwitz, Stephen Darwall, Margaret Gilbert, David Lyons, and Aharon Barak. With approaches ranging from the political to the historical, and from the analytical to the critical, this collection touches on the major conceptual and practical questions of this important field: what is the nature and grounding of human rights? How should conflicts of rights best be analyzed? Are rights best understood in terms of choice, benefits, or some hybrid of the two? What are the connections between rights and duties, and between rights and justice? The collection also offers useful introductions to emerging issues in rights theory such as the purported bipolarity of rights.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Series Preface
Introduction
PART I: RIGHTS IN CONTEXT
1 Natural Law and Natural Rights
2 'Protestant' Political Theory and the Significance of Rights
3 Human Rights in the Emerging World Order
4 Humanist and Political Perspectives on Human Rights
PART II: CONCEPTS OF RIGHTS
5 Are There Still Any Natural Rights?
6 Value Pluralism and the Two Concepts of Rights
7 The Analytical Foundations of Justice
8 Fundamental Legal Conceptions Reconsidered
9 Ross and Olivecrona on Rights
10 A Right to Do Wrong? Two Conceptions of Moral Rights
11 The Nature of Rights
12 Theories of Rights: Is There a Third Way?
PART III: BIPOLARITY OF RIGHTS
13 Bipolar Obligation
14 Giving Claim-Rights Their Due
15 The Nature of Rights Debate Rests on a Mistake
16 Duties and Their Direction
PART IV: RIGHTS AND REASONS
17 What Demands are Rights? An Investigation into the Relation between Rights and Reasons
18 Rights and Recognition
19 The Rights Recognition Thesis: Defending and Extending Green
PART V: CONFLICTS OF RIGHTS
20 On Conflicts Between Rights
21 American Balancing and German Proportionality: The Historical Origins
22 Security and Liberty: The Image of Balance
23 Proportionality Stricto Sensu (Balancing)
24 The Weight Formula
25 On Robert Alexy's Weight Formula for Weighing and Balancing
Name Index

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