Realm of Rights

Name: Realm of Rights
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ISBN: 9780674749498

ISBN-10: 0674749499

ISBN-13: 9780674749498

Edition: 1990

Authors: Judith Jarvis Thomson

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The concept of a right is fundamental to moral, political, and legal thinking, but much of the use of that concept is selective and fragmentary: it is common merely to appeal to this or that intuitively plausible attribution of rights as needed for purposes of argument. In The Realm of Rights Judith Thomson provides a full-scale, systematic theory of human and social rights, bringing out what in general makes an attribution of a right true. Thomson says that the question what it is to have a right precedes the question which rights we have, and she therefore begins by asking why our having rights is a morally significant fact about us. She argues that a person's having a right is…

Book details

List price: $52.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 1/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.94" wide x 9.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Judith Jarvis Thomson is Professor of Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.



Introduction and Metaethical Remarks Rights


What They are Claims, Privileges, and Powers Duties Ought Enforcing Claims Value Tradeoffs The Trolley Problem Rights


Which They are Trespass and First Property Harm Distress and Harm Liberty Giving One's Word Second Property Ceasing To Have a Right


Index