Rights
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Rights
（Concepts in the social sciences）
Open University Press, 1991
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- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. [125]-129
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780335155729
Description
The concept of rights has become central to modern political argument. This book introduces the reader to some of the most recent political and philosophical theorizing on rights, while placing those theories within historical traditions. It focuses on examining rights discourse as a reflection of the patterns people employ when thinking about politics, and links rights with other key political concepts. The book investigates the doctrine of natural rights and its critiques, explores the distinction between choice and welfare rights, suggests an area of compatibility between rights theory and utilitarianism and assesses the contents of contemporary rights documents. It argues for an appreciation of the multiple meanings contained in rights discourse, but it also offers a plausible interpretation of rights which seeks to combine individualist and communitarian concerns and to extend the concept to cover all significant aspects of human flourishing.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The concept of rights: approaches and methods
- a definition. Part 2 The emergence of rights in political thinking: Thomas Hobbes
- John Locke
- Edmund Burke
- Thomas Paine
- Jeremy Bentham
- Thomas Hill Green
- Karl Marx. Part 3 The natural rights paradigm - an assessment: innateness
- pre-sociability
- absoluteness
- universality. Part 4 Choice and welfare: options and will
- interests and needs
- rights-bearers and rights-upholders. Part 5 Human nature, development and community: development
- community
- rights and duties reconsidered. Part 6 Utility and rights: classical and constrained utilitarianism
- the limits of trade-offs and competitions
- assessing modified utilitarianism. Part 7 Human rights in practice - a sampling of problems: formal statements
- issues.
- Volume
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: [hbk] ISBN 9780335155736
Description
The concept of rights has become central to modern political argument. This book introduces the reader to some of the most recent political and philosophical theorizing on rights, while placing those theories within historical traditions. It focuses on examining rights discourse as a reflection of the patterns people employ when thinking about politics, and links rights with other key political concepts. The book investigates the doctrine of natural rights and its critiques, explores the distinction between choice and welfare rights, suggests an area of compatibility between rights theory and utilitarianism and assesses the contents of contemporary rights documents. It argues for an appreciation of the multiple meanings contained in rights discourse, but it also offers a plausible interpretation of rights which seeks to combine individualist and communitarian concerns and to extend the concept to cover all significant aspects of human flourishing.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The concept of rights: approaches and methods
- a definition. Part 2 The emergence of rights in political thinking: Thomas Hobbes
- John Locke
- Edmund Burke
- Thomas Paine
- Jeremy Bentam
- Thomas Hill Green
- Karl Marx. Part 3 The natural rights paradigm - an assessment: innateness
- pre-sociability
- absoluteness
- universality. Part 4 Choice and welfare: options and will
- interests and needs
- rights-bearers and rights-upholders. Part 5 Human nature, development and community: development
- community
- rights and duties reconsidered. Part 6 Utility and rights: classical and constrained utilitarianism
- the limits of trade-offs and competitions
- assessing modified utilitarianism. Part 7 Human rights in practice - a sampling of problems: formal statements
- issues.
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