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Oedipus at Fenway Park - What Rights Are & Why There Are Any What Rights Are and Why There are Any

Name: Oedipus at Fenway Park - What Rights Are & Why There Are Any
Author: Lloyd L. Weinreb

Auteur: Lloyd L. Weinreb

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Lloyd L. Weinreb Lloyd L. Wienreb

Engels
Hardcover
9780674630925
05 augustus 1998
232 pagina's

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We speak of rights as though they are matters of fact that have a crucial bearing on how we ought to behave. Yet few, if any, rights are universally acknowledged without wide differences of meaning. Weinreb makes the first significant advance toward an understanding of what rights are, how they function in our lives, and why we need them.

We speak of rights as though they are objective matters of fact that have a crucial bearing on how we ought to behave. Yet few, if any, rights are universally acknowledged without wide differences of meaning. Instead, they usually represent the particular ideals of the individuals or groups that claim them. Theories of rights have always grappled with this central problem, but none of the literature on the subject has offered a satisfactory solution. Lloyd Weinreb makes the first significant advance toward an understanding of what rights are, how they function in our lives, and why we need them.

Weinreb’s central argument is that rights are tightly connected to responsibility. They are the normative constituents of persons, attributes that we have rightly, as our due. As such, they enable us to overcome the antinomy of moral freedom and natural causal order. Without them, we could not regard human beings as persons, that is, as free and responsible, or autonomous. Since responsibility is a structural feature of our experience and a matter of fact, rights too are matters of fact.

Against a review of the current debates on the subject, Weinreb fully elaborates his original argument on the nature of rights and finds the source of concrete rights in the nomos, or deep conventions, of a community. Applying his theory, he shows how it helps to answer specific questions about animal rights, human rights—including, in the context of abortion and capital punishment, the right to life—and civil rights, including particularly rights of the handicapped, gay rights, and affirmative action in contemporary American society. Along the way, Weinreb shows that Oedipus and Roger Clemens have more in common than either would probably have supposed.

This highly original work will significantly redirect the study of rights. It will be especially valuable to those who practice or study law, philosophy, politics, and public policy.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 05 augustus 1998
Aantal pagina's: 232
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Lloyd L. Weinreb
Tweede Auteur: Lloyd L. Wienreb
Hoofduitgeverij: Harvard University Press

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 156 mm
Product lengte: 235 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 156 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 235 mm
Verpakking lengte: 235 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 517 g

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EAN: 9780674630925

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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

Rechten

Politiek

Politieke controle & Vrijheid

Burgerrechten

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Taal: Engels
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar
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