Rights

Rights: concepts and contexts

by Bix, Brian H. Spector, Horacio

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With approaches ranging from the political to the historical, and from the analytical to the critical, this collection touches on the major conceptual and practical questions of this important field: What is the nature and grounding of human rights? How should conflicts of rights best be analyzed?

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  • Full title :Rights : concepts and contexts / edited by Brian Bix and Horacio Spector

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With approaches ranging from the political to the historical, and from the analytical to the critical, this collection touches on the major conceptual and practical questions of this important field: What is the nature and grounding of human rights? How should conflicts of rights best be analyzed?

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2012

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Ashgate
  • Place of Publication:Farnham
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2012

Notes

Articles and essays originally published in various sources, 1995-2012

Natural law and natural rights / Morton J. Horwitz. "Protestant" political theory and the significance of rights / Sean Coyle. Human rights in the emerging world order / Joseph Raz. Humanist and political perspectives on human rights / Pablo Gilabert. Are there still any natural rights? / Hillel Steiner. Value pluralism and the two concepts of rights / Horacio Spector. The analytical foundations of justice / N.E. Simmonds. Fundamental legal conceptions reconsidered / Andrew Halpin. Ross and Olivecrona on rights / Brian H. Bix. A right to do wrong? Two conceptions of moral rights / William A. Edmundson. The nature of rights / Leif Wenar. Theories of rights : is there a third way? / Matthew H. Kramer and Hillel Steiner. Bipolar obligation / Stephen Darwall. Giving claim-rights their due / Margaret Gilbert. The nature of rights debate rests on a mistake / Siegfried Van Duffel. Duties and their direction / Gopal Sreenivasan. What demands are rights? An investigation into the relation between rights and reasons / Alon Harel. Rights and recognition / David Lyons. The rights recognition thesis : defending and extending Green / Gerald F. Gaus. On conflicts between rights / Christopher Heath Wellman. American balancing and German proportionality : the historical origins / Moshe Cohen-Eliya and Iddo Porat. Security and liberty : the image of balance / Jeremy Waldron. Proportionality Stricto Sensu (Balancing) / Aharon Barak. The weight formula / Robert Alexy. On Robert Alexy's weight formula for weighing and balancing / Lars Lindahl

The Physical Object

  • Description:xx, 583 s. : : illustrations ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781409440482, 1409440486
  • oclc:ocn841567470
  • LC Classification:JC571

Table of Contents

Natural law and natural rights / Morton J. Horwitz -- "Protestant" political theory and the significance of rights / Sean Coyle -- Human rights in the emerging world order / Joseph Raz -- Humanist and political perspectives on human rights / Pablo Gilabert -- Are there still any natural rights? / Hillel Steiner -- Value pluralism and the two concepts of rights / Horacio Spector -- The analytical foundations of justice / N.E. Simmonds -- Fundamental legal conceptions reconsidered / Andrew Halpin -- Ross and Olivecrona on rights / Brian H. Bix -- A right to do wrong? -- Two conceptions of moral rights / William A. Edmundson -- The nature of rights / Leif Wenar -- Theories of rights : is there a third way? / Matthew H. Kramer and Hillel Steiner -- Bipolar obligation / Stephen Darwall -- Giving claim-rights their due / Margaret Gilbert -- The nature of rights debate rests on a mistake / Siegfried Van Duffel -- Duties and their direction / Gopal Sreenivasan -- What demands are rights? -- An investigation into the relation between rights and reasons / Alon Harel -- Rights and recognition / David Lyons -- The rights recognition thesis : defending and extending Green / Gerald F. Gaus -- O…

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Subjects

Droits de l'homme (Droit international) Droits de l'homme (Droit international)… Human rights Human rights -- Philosophy Rettigheder i alm

Writers

Bix, Brian H. Spector, Horacio

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