Rights, Welfare, and Mill's Moral Theory

Name: Rights, Welfare, and Mill's Moral Theory
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ISBN: 9780195082173

ISBN-10: 0195082176

ISBN-13: 9780195082173

Edition: 1994

Authors: David Lyons

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This volume collects David Lyons' well-known essays on Mill's moral theory and includes an introduction which relates the essays to prior and subsequent philosophical developments. Like the author's Forms and Limits of Utilitarianism (Oxford, 1965), the essays apply analytical methods to issues in normative ethics. The first essay defends a refined version of the beneficiary theory of rights against H.L.A. Hart's important criticisms. The central set of essays develops new interpretations of Mill's moral theory with the aim of determining how far rights can be incorporated in a utilitarian framework. They Mill's analysis of moral concepts promises to accommodate the argumentative force of…

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List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/4/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 5.69" wide x 8.56" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Abbreviations
Introduction	p. 3
Rights, Claimants, and Beneficiaries	p. 23
Mill's Theory of Morality	p. 47
Mill's Theory of Justice	p. 67
Liberty and Harm to Others	p. 89
Benevolence and Justice in Mill	p. 109
Utility and Rights	p. 147
Bibliography	p. 177
Index	p. 181
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