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Author : Joel Feinberg
Release : 1997
Genre : Civil rights
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Book Synopsis Rights, Justice, and the Bounds of Liberty by : Joel Feinberg
Download or read book Rights, Justice, and the Bounds of Liberty written by Joel Feinberg. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joel Feinberg
Release : 2014-07-14
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Rights, Justice, and the Bounds of Liberty by : Joel Feinberg
Download or read book Rights, Justice, and the Bounds of Liberty written by Joel Feinberg. This book was released on 2014-07-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays by one of America's preeminent philosophers in the area of jurisprudence and moral philosophy gathers together fourteen papers that had been published in widely scattered and not readily accessible sources. All of the essays deal with the political ideals of liberty and justice or with hard cases for the application of the concept of a right. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Joel Feinberg
Release : 1973
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Social Philosophy by : Joel Feinberg
Download or read book Social Philosophy written by Joel Feinberg. This book was released on 1973. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses problems of conceptual analysis as well as normative issues of vital contemporary concern.
Author : David Boucher
Release : 2011-05-05
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis The Limits of Ethics in International Relations by : David Boucher
Download or read book The Limits of Ethics in International Relations written by David Boucher. This book was released on 2011-05-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethical constraints on relations among individuals within and between societies have always reflected or invoked a higher authority than the caprices of human will. For over two thousand years Natural Law and Natural Rights were the constellations of ideas and presuppositions that fulfilled this role in the west, and exhibited far greater similarities than most commentators want to admit. Such ideas were the lens through which Europeans evaluated the rest of the world. In his major new book David Boucher rejects the view that Natural Rights constituted a secularisation of Natural Law ideas by showing that most of the significant thinkers in the field, in their various ways, believed that reason leads you to the discovery of your obligations, while God provides the ground for discharging them. Furthermore, the book maintains that Natural Rights and Human Rights are far less closely related than is often asserted because Natural Rights never cast adrift the religious foundationalism, whereas Human Rights, for the most part, have jettisoned the Christian metaphysics upon which both Natural Law and Natural Rights depended. Human Rights theories, on the whole, present us with foundationless universal constraints on the actions of individuals, both domestically and internationally. Finally, one of the principal contentions of the book is that these purportedly universal rights and duties almost invariably turn out to be conditional, and upon close scrutiny end up being 'special' rights and privileges as the examples of multicultural encounters, slavery and racism, and women's rights demonstrate.
Author : James E. Fleming
Release : 2013-01-01
Genre : Law
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Book Synopsis Ordered Liberty by : James E. Fleming
Download or read book Ordered Liberty written by James E. Fleming. This book was released on 2013-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many have argued in recent years that the U.S. constitutional system exalts individual rights over responsibilities, virtues, and the common good. Answering the charges against liberal theories of rights, James Fleming and Linda McClain develop and defend a civic liberalism that takes responsibilities and virtues—as well as rights—seriously. They provide an account of ordered liberty that protects basic liberties stringently, but not absolutely, and permits government to encourage responsibility and inculcate civic virtues without sacrificing personal autonomy to collective determination. The battle over same-sex marriage is one of many current controversies the authors use to defend their understanding of the relationship among rights, responsibilities, and virtues. Against accusations that same-sex marriage severs the rights of marriage from responsible sexuality, procreation, and parenthood, they argue that same-sex couples seek the same rights, responsibilities, and goods of civil marriage that opposite-sex couples pursue. Securing their right to marry respects individual autonomy while also promoting moral goods and virtues. Other issues to which they apply their idea of civic liberalism include reproductive freedom, the proper roles and regulation of civil society and the family, the education of children, and clashes between First Amendment freedoms (of association and religion) and antidiscrimination law. Articulating common ground between liberalism and its critics, Fleming and McClain develop an account of responsibilities and virtues that appreciates the value of diversity in our morally pluralistic constitutional democracy.
