عنوان

An essay on rights /

(Number (ISBN

0631131655

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0631190279

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9780631131656

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9780631190271

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b799472

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An essay on rights /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Hillel Steiner.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Oxford, UK :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Blackwell,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1994.

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x, 305 pages :

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illustrations ;

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23 cm

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-295) and index.

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1. Introduction -- 2. Liberty. (a). Actions and Eligibility. (b). Offers and Threats. (c). Prevention and Possession. (d). Liberty and Computation -- 3. Rights. (a). Choices and Benefits. (b). Liberties and Duties. (c). Compossibility and Domains. (d). Titles and Vindications -- 4. Moral Reasoning. (a). Rules and Judgements. (b). Priority and Structure. (c). Quality and Quantity. (d). Consequences and Numbers -- 5. Economic Reasoning. (a). Axioms and Orderings. (b). Indifference and Optimality. (c). Continuity and Commensurability. (d). Endowments and Exploitation -- 6. Justice. (a). Disagreement and Deadlock. (b). Impartiality and Lexicality. (c). Liberty and Equality. (d). Rights and Origins -- 7. Original Rights. (a). Persons and Things. (b). Persons and Bodies. (c). Persons and Times. (d). Persons and Places -- 8. Epilogue: Just Redistributions.

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Everyone is commonly thought to have rights to freedom and to some kind of equal treatment. The tensions between these claims have long exercised the minds of philosophers, moralists, economists, jurists and others. And they have informed the issues at stake in ideological conflict, wars and revolutions. How these tensions are handled in law, politics and economic activity affects relations between individuals, not least as members of different societies and generations.

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People standardly express their demands for justice in terms of rights, the items created and parcelled out by just principles. So, the author argues, it must surely be possible to learn something about justice by identifying the characteristic features of rights - and something more by discovering how two or more rights can co-exist: indeed, a central part of his argument is that for a set of rights to be just they must at least be mutually consistent.

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Their resolution is found here in a set of rights that is at once libertarian and redistributive in its demands. The author clarifies and analyses the role played by ideas of liberty and rights in legal, moral and economic reasoning. He then moves to formulate a coherent set of original rights that is at once appropriate for persons' external property and for their bodies, and which takes account of differences between their locations in time and place and their genetic endowments.

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This book addresses the perennial question: What is justice? The usual answer draws on ideas such as fairness and impartiality. Hillel Steiner departs from this approach: he seeks an answer through an exploration of the nature of rights.

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This original and important book will appeal to readers concerned with central problems in moral, political and legal philosophy, the history of ideas, and theoretical aspects of economics and social policy. Its trenchant argument is accessible, even on technical issues, and is illustrated throughout with real and hypothetical examples. It is also written in an engagingly colloquial style.

Choice (Psychology)

Law-- Philosophy.

Choix (Psychologie)

Droit-- Philosophie.

Choice (Psychology)

Choice (Psychology)

Justice.

Law-- Philosophy.

Law-- Philosophy.

Rechtsfilosofie.

Rechtsphilosophie

Rechtvaardigheid.

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340.12

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Steiner, Hillel.

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20201207115559.0

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