Withdrawal of Rights Rights from a Different Perspective

Name: Withdrawal of Rights Rights from a Different Perspective
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ISBN: 9781402008863

ISBN-10: 1402008864

ISBN-13: 9781402008863

Edition: 2002

Authors: Ovadia Ezra

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Like most discussions within the tradition of rights-talk, this study is motivated by the desire to promote the idea that rights are moral assets that people should acquire in the course of their membership within social and political frameworks. However, while most participants in rights-talk concentrate on the safety and protection constraints required for a successful exercising of rights, the present study inquires into the circumstances under which people's rights lose their validity. The author believes that if we want to prevent the erosion of the role of rights within society and to encourage their obligatory status, we should prevent their misuse, or their unjustified or excessive…

Book details

List price: $109.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Publication date: 9/30/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 284
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.948
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction



The Concept of Rights



Some agreements about rights



The moral status of rights



The meaning of having rights



Conditions of absence of rights



Summary



The Identity of Right-Holders



Some acknowledged characteristics of right-holders



A few remarks on the concepts of possible right-holders



Alan Gewirth's theory of rights



The priority of a system of rules



Melden's theory of rights



The integrated conception of a moral agent



Summary



The Withdrawal of Rights



Some related positions regarding the withdrawal of rights



Towards anew conception of the withdrawal of rights



Who has the authority to withdraw rights?



The justifying ground for the withdrawal of rights



Some clarifying remarks



Summary



Punishment



General introduction and preliminary remarks



The forward-looking approach to punishment



The backward-looking approach to punishment



An integrated justification for punishment



The "fair-play retributivist" or "rights-retibutivist" approach toward punishment



Capital punishment



Summary



Appendix: Non-legal withdrawal of rights



Rights of Partial Members of the Moral Community



Children's rights



Fetuses' rights: the morality of abortion



Abortion as a conflict between rights



Does abortion stike at the sanctity or value of life?



Rights of mentally retarded persons



Summary


Conclusions


References


Index


Notes