Rights, Welfare, and Mill's Moral Theory

Name: Rights, Welfare, and Mill's Moral Theory
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ISBN: 9780195082180

ISBN-10: 0195082184

ISBN-13: 9780195082180

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 show how Mill's analysis of moral concepts promises to accommodate the argumentative…

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List price: $83.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/4/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.19" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Abbreviations


Introduction



Rights, Claimants, and Beneficiaries



Mill's Theory of Morality



Mill's Theory of Justice



Liberty and Harm to Others



Benevolence and Justice in Mill



Utility and Rights


Bibliography


Index