Rights and demands : a foundational inquiry /

"Rights are often invoked in contemporary moral and political debates, yet the nature of rights is contested. Rights and Demands provides the first full-length treatment of a central class of rights: demand-rights. To have such a right is to have the standing or authority to demand a particular...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gilbert, Margaret, 1942- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Human rights > Philosophy.
Human rights > History.
Responsibility.
Political obligation.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Philosophie.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Histoire.
Responsabilité.
Obligation politique.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
Human rights
Human rights > Philosophy
Political obligation
Responsibility
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Rights in the conversation of humanity
  • Part I: A problem posed. Some central distinctions from rights theory
  • Two realms of rights
  • Hohfeld's claims and Thomson's doubts
  • Demand-rights--and the demand-right problem
  • Contemporary rights theories: the problem remains
  • Part II: The problem solved. Agreements and promises: Hume's legacy
  • Problems with moral principle accounts
  • A fundamental ground of demand-rights
  • A theory of agreements and promises
  • The ubiquity of joint commitment
  • Part III: Demand-rights, morality, and law
  • Are there any mora demand-rights? Part I
  • Are there any moral demand-rights? Part II
  • Demand-rights, law, and other institutions
  • Human rights in light of the foregoing
  • Conclusion.

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