Rights, Wrongs and Responsibilities
β Scribed by Matthew H. Kramer (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 262
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Hohfeldian Rights and Public Law....Pages 1-27
Getting Rights Right....Pages 28-95
On Criminal Attempts....Pages 96-118
Attempts, Impossibility and Intention: a Reply to Waluchow....Pages 119-147
Property and Justice....Pages 148-174
Prima Facie Rights, Rationality and the Law of Negligence....Pages 175-208
Noncompensatable Wrongs, or Having to Say Youβre Sorry....Pages 209-224
Choice and Circumstance....Pages 225-241
Back Matter....Pages 242-247
β¦ Subjects
Ethics; Moral Philosophy; Social Philosophy; Political Philosophy; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History
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