An Introduction to Rights is a readable and accessible introduction to the history, logic, moral implications and political tendencies of the idea of rights. It is organized chronologically and discusses important historical events such as the French and American Revolutions. It treats a range of historical figures, including Grotius, Paley, Hobbes, Locke, Bentham, Burke, Godwin, Douglass, Mill and Hohfeld and relates the concept of rights to contemporary debates such as consequentialism versus contractualism. This thoroughly updated second edition includes a new preface and expands the discussion of the surprising role that slavery has played in the history of rights. It includes new material on egalitarianism, distributive justice and what the demand for equal rights means.
ISBN: | 9781107648197 |
Publication date: | 23rd January 2012 |
Author: | William A Georgia State University Edmundson |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 200 pages |
Series: | Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law |
Genres: |
Social and political philosophy Human rights, civil rights Ethics and moral philosophy |