Theories of Rights

C.L. Ten

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781351879644
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Political Philosophy

To those who invoke them, rights are powerful instruments for settling arguments in favour of the right-holders. But the nature, provenance and justification of rights are uncertain and disputed and there are doubts about whether rights should play a distinctive and fundamental role in moral and political discourse. More recent disgreements have centred on group rights and on whether rights have a universal application across different cultures and moral traditions. These and other related issues are explored in depth by the essays in this volume, which are mostly drawn from a wide range of journals in philosophy, politics and law.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Series Preface
• Introduction
• 1 Rex Martin and James W. Nickel (1980), ‘Recent Work on the Concept of Rights’, American Philosophical Quarterly, 17, pp. 165–80.
• 2 Joel Feinberg (1992), ‘In Defence of Moral Rights’, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 12, pp. 149–69.
• 3 J. Raz (1984), ‘On the Nature of Rights’, Mind, 93, pp. 194–214.
• 4 H.L.A. Hart (1955), ‘Are There Any Natural Rights?’, Philosophical Review, 64, pp. 175–91.
• 5 David Lyons (1969), ‘Rights, Claimants, and Beneficiaries’, American Philosophical Quarterly, 6, pp. 173–85.
• 6 Phillip Montague (1980), ‘Two Concepts of Rights’, Philosophy and Public Affairs, 9, pp. 372–84.
• 7 Jeremy Waldron (1981), ‘A Right to Do Wrong’, Ethics, 92, pp. 21–39.
• 8 Jeremy Waldron (1989), ‘Rights in Conflict’, Ethics, 99, pp. 503–19.
• 9 F.M. Kamm (2001), ‘Conflicts of Rights: Typology, Methodology, and Nonconsequentialism’, Legal Theory, 7, pp. 239–55.
• 10 H.L.A. Hart (1982), ‘Natural Rights: Bentham and John Stuart Mill’, in H.L.A Hart, Essays on Bentham, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 79–104.
• 11 T.M. Scanlon (1977), ‘Rights, Goals, and Fairness’, in Stuart Hampshire (ed.), Public and Private Morality, New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 93–111.
• 12 Ronald Dworkin (1981), ‘Is There a Right to Pornography?’, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 1, pp. 177–212.
• 13 Rodney Peffer (1978), ‘A Defense of Rights to Well-Being’, Philosophy and Public Affairs, 8, pp. 65–87.
• 14 H.L.A. Hart (1979), ‘Between Utility and Rights’, Columbia Law Review, 79, pp. 828–46.
• 15 Allen Buchanan (1984), ‘What’s So Special About Rights?’, Social Philosophy and Policy, 2, pp. 61–83.
• 16 Richard J. Arneson (2001), ‘Against Rights’, Philosophical Issues, 11, pp. 172–201.
• 17 Peter Jones (1999), ‘Group Rights and Group Oppression’, Journal of Political Philosophy, 7, pp. 353–77.
• 18 Will Kymlicka (1996), ‘The Good, The Bad, and The Intolerable’, Dissent, Summer, pp. 22–30.
• 19 Seung-hwan Lee (1996), ‘Liberal Rights or/and Confucian Virtues?’, Philosophy East and West, 46, pp. 367–79.
• 20 Fred Dallmayr (2002), ‘“Asian Values” and Global Human Rights’, Philosophy East and West, 52, pp. 173–89.
• 21 Charles Taylor (1996), ‘A World Consensus on Human Rights?’, Dissent, Summer, pp. 15–21.
• 22 Joshua Cohen (2004), ‘Minimalism About Human Rights: The Most We Can Hope For?’, Journal of Political Philosophy, 12, pp. 190–213.
• Name Index