Human rights, ownership, and the individual

Human rights, ownership, and the individual / Rowan Cruft.

Is it defensible to use the concept of a right? Can we justify this concept's central place in modern moral and legal thinking, or does it unjustifiably side-line those who do not qualify as right-holders? Rowan Cruft brings together a new account of the concept of a right. Moving beyond the tr...

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Main Author: Cruft, Rowan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Human rights > Philosophy.
Ethics > Philosophy.
Right of property.
property rights.
Right of property
Ethics > Philosophy
Human rights > Philosophy
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Rights' elusive relation to interests
  • Rights' elusive relation to power
  • Rights' relation to the first and second person
  • Rights and interests revisited
  • From directed duties to rights
  • Teleological groundings of rights and duties
  • The individual's place in the grounding of her rights
  • The 'human' in human rights and the law
  • Human rights as everyone's business
  • Introducing property rights
  • Modest property rights for the right-holder's sake
  • Property rights for the common good
  • Rights protecting performance of duties
  • Conclusion: a partial vindication of rights.

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