Moral Rights and Political FreedomRowman & Littlefield, 1995 - 224 Seiten Seeking a way out of today's bewildering rush of rights claims, Tara Smith's Moral Rights and Political Freedom offers a systematic account of the nature and foundations of rights. The book carefully elucidates what political freedom is and demonstrates why it should be protected by rights. Smith's thesis is that rights are teleological: respect for freedom is necessary for individuals' flourishing or eudaimonia. Smith illustrates how many alleged rights would actually undermine that objective. Her decisive refutation of the assumption that conflicts between rights are inevitable--demonstrating how such conflicts are theoretically incoherent and practically self-defeating--should go a long way toward resolving many contemporary disputes about rights. |
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... offers reliable moral pro- tection . Several authors have invoked the metaphor of inflation to charac- terize this ... offer only tentative protection . All of this corroborates the contention that rights ' current emi- nence is ...
... offers reliable moral pro- tection . Several authors have invoked the metaphor of inflation to charac- terize this ... offer only tentative protection . All of this corroborates the contention that rights ' current emi- nence is ...
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... offer suffi- cient justification for doing so . So appeal to " higher " rights seems a logical means for the resolution of such disputes . Thus the spiral of rights claims is fueled . We invent still further rights in order to alle ...
... offer suffi- cient justification for doing so . So appeal to " higher " rights seems a logical means for the resolution of such disputes . Thus the spiral of rights claims is fueled . We invent still further rights in order to alle ...
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... offers the advan- tage of tying respect for rights to practical benefits , it suffers from the prospect of tension between rights and those ends that they are intended to foster . If promotion of the end requires sacrifice of a right ...
... offers the advan- tage of tying respect for rights to practical benefits , it suffers from the prospect of tension between rights and those ends that they are intended to foster . If promotion of the end requires sacrifice of a right ...
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