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What's Wrong with Rights?

✍ Nigel Biggar 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 OUP Oxford 🌐 English

Are natural rights 'nonsense on stilts', as Jeremy Bentham memorably put it? Must the very notion of a right be individualistic, subverting the common good? Should the right against torture be absolute, even though the heavens fall? Are human rights universal or merely expressions of Western neo-imp

What's Wrong with Rights?

📁 What's Wrong with Rights?

✍ Nigel Biggar 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

Are natural rights 'nonsense on stilts', as Jeremy Bentham memorably put it? Must the very notion of a right be individualistic, subverting the common good? Should the right against torture be absolute, even though the heavens fall? Are human rights universal or merely expressions of Western neo-imp

What's Wrong with Right Now?

📁 What's Wrong with Right Now?

✍ Sailor Bob Adamson 📂 Library 🌐 English

What’s Wrong with Right Now?

📁 What’s Wrong with Right Now?

✍ Sailor Bob Adamson 📂 Library 📅 2007 🏛 Non-Duality Press 🌐 English

Sailor Bob Adamson's search came to an end in the mid 1970s with an encounter with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, the revered jnani of Bombay. Since that time he has shared his understanding with those who look for answers to the essential questions of life. This book is a compilation of dialogues with s

What's Wrong with Children's Rights

📁 What's Wrong with Children's Rights

✍ Martin Guggenheim 📂 Library 📅 2005 🌐 English

"Children's rights": the phrase has been a legal battle cry for twenty-five years. But as this provocative book by a nationally renowned expert on children's legal standing argues, it is neither possible nor desirable to isolate children from the interests of their parents, or those of society as

What's Wrong with Children's Rights

📁 What's Wrong with Children's Rights

✍ Martin Guggenheim 📂 Library 📅 2009 🏛 Harvard University Press 🌐 English

<p>From foster care to adoption to visitation rights and beyond, Guggenheim offers an analysis of the most significant debates in the children’s rights movement. He argues that “children's rights” can serve as a screen for the interests of adults, who may have more to gain than the children for whom