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Rights

  • Textbook
  • © 1994

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Authors:
  1. Peter Jones
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Part of the book series: Issues in Political Theory (IPT)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Peter Jones
    Pages 1-11

  3. Forms of Right

    • Peter Jones
    Pages 12-25

  4. Benefits, Choices and Titles

    • Peter Jones
    Pages 26-44

  5. The Morality of Rights

    • Peter Jones
    Pages 45-71

  6. Natural Rights and Human Rights

    • Peter Jones
    Pages 72-93

  7. Justifying Human Rights

    • Peter Jones
    Pages 94-119

  8. Freedom, Autonomy and Rights

    • Peter Jones
    Pages 120-145

  9. Socioeconomic Rights

    • Peter Jones
    Pages 146-171

  10. Democracy, Groups and Rights

    • Peter Jones
    Pages 172-189

  11. Some Doubts and Difficulties

    • Peter Jones
    Pages 190-220

  12. Conclusion

    • Peter Jones
    Pages 221-227

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 228-258
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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary thought about rights. It examines what it is to have a right and what is distinctive about political moralities that give a fundamental place to rights. The varied grounds and implications of claiming rights to liberties, socio-economic rights and democratic rights are considered and the book concludes with an examination of the theoretical objections and the practical difficulties that proponents of rights have to confront.

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