Rights and Reason: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Rights 9780773582101

In Rights and Reason Jonathan Gorman sets discussion of the "rights debate" within a wide-ranging philosophica

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Rights and Reason: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Rights
 9780773582101

Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
Preface
1 Introduction
2 Plato
3 Hobbes
4 Locke
5 Human motivation
6 Human value
7 Hohfeld's analysis
8 Hohfeld's analysis analysed
9 Change
10 Inconsistency
11 Understanding rights
12 The rights-based approach
13 Duty and justice
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Untied Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Appendix 2: Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, as amended by Protocol No. 11 Rome, 4.XI. 1950
Bibliography
Index
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