Rights and Reason: An Introduction to the Philosophy of RightsMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2003 - 230 pages |
Contents
1 Introduction | 1 |
2 Plato | 28 |
3 Hobbes | 39 |
4 Locke | 55 |
5 Human motivation | 65 |
6 Human value | 71 |
7 Hohfelds analysis | 83 |
8 Hohfelds analysis analysed | 100 |
11 Understanding rights | 135 |
12 The rightsbased approach | 150 |
13 Duty and justice | 169 |
Conclusion | 178 |
Untied Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights | 193 |
Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms as amended by Protocol No 11 Rome 4XI 1950 | 200 |
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Rights and Reason: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Rights Jonathan L. Gorman Limited preview - 2003 |
Common terms and phrases
analytical analytical philosophy application approach argument Article beliefs beneficiary Cephalus Chapter choice claim claim-right concept of rights conflict consistent contrast correlatives Council of Europe Court criteria desires empiricism empiricist epistemology essentially contested concept eternal ethical existence expressed feature Finnis freedom fundamental Grand Chamber High Contracting Party Hobbes Hobbes's Hohfeld's analysis Hohfeldian human nature human rights Hume Ibid idea implies inconsistent independent individual involved judgements judges Kant Kant's knowledge language liberty Locke Locke's logical logical positivists meaning metaphysical moral philosophy moral points moral reality moral rights moral understanding motivated natural rights objective Oxford particular person philosophy of law Plato point of view political position presupposes principles prior question rational Rawls Rawls's respect rights and duties sense situation social Socrates sovereign Steiner theory of human Theory of Justice theory of rights things truth unchanging understanding of rights understanding rights understood W. V. O. Quine