Overview
- Defends an alternative both to interest/benefit theories of rights and to choice/will theories of rights
- Solves the problem of the rights of past and future generations
- Presents a new analysis of the nature of rights conflict
- Outlines a new view on what sorts of things can have right
- Shows that Hohfeldian analysis can be understood in terms of more common concepts, e.g., obligation
Part of the book series: Law and Philosophy Library (LAPS, volume 73)
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"With clear exposition, powerful argument and informed incisive critisms of alternative theories, this book gives a systematic account of an original and important alternative to the best theories of rights in the recent literature."
Carl Wellman, Washington University, St Louis, USA
"More systematic, nuanced, and sophisticated than almost all other (Hohfeldian and neo-Hohfeldian analyses of rights talk). His peer in this regard is perhaps Judith Jarvis Thomson."
Richard Arneson, University of California at San Diego, USA
"The most sophisticated [Hohfeldian rights analysis] I have seen."
David Schmidtz, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
"First-rate book, the best thing on the subject since Sumner and Thomson's books fifteen to twenty years ago."
Christopher W. Morris, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
"Advances the positions of Joseph Raz and H.L.A. Hart, perhaps the two most important legal philosophers of the last century"
Douglas Husak, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Concept of Rights
Authors: George W. Rainbolt
Series Title: Law and Philosophy Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3977-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3976-8Published: 09 March 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7005-0Published: 18 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3977-5Published: 08 July 2006
Series ISSN: 1572-4395
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0315
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 258
Topics: Philosophy of Law, Ethics, Political Philosophy