Rethinking Rights - Historical Development and Philosophical Justification

Informationen zum Autor By Eleanor Curran Klappentext This book takes a new look at the history of individual rights, focusing on how philosophers have written that history. Eleanor Curran argues that the turn to jurisprudence, after the philosophical rejection of natural rights, has resulted in an impoverished notion of rights as no more than claims and entitlements. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: The History of Rights Theory Chapter 1. The Beginning: The Rise of the Idea of Natural Rights Chapter 2. The Philosophical Discrediting of Natural Law and Natural Rights Chapter 3. Does Hobbes Rather than Locke Provide a Forerunner to Modern Theories of Rights? Chapter 4. The Jurisprudential Turn in Rights Theorising Chapter 5. Reading Historical Writing on Rights: The Distorting Influence of Hohfeld Part II: Current and Future Rights Theory: Assessing the Philosophy of Rights Chapter 6. The Continuing Dominance of Hohfeld Chapter 7. Current Theories of Rights: The Will and Interest Theories and Theories of Human Rights Chapter 8. Thoughts for Future Rights Theorising

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• Authors: Eleanor Curran, Curran Eleanor
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9781498547871
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4787-1
• No. of pages: 180
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; History of Ideas, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy, LAW / Jurisprudence, Western philosophy from c 1800, Jurisprudence & general issues, Human rights, civil rights, Jurisprudence and general issues