Rights and Reason: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Rights

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McGill-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
Bibliography
217
Index
223

9 Change
115
10 Inconsistency
123

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