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The Moral Foundation of Rights

Sumner L W

The Moral Foundation of Rights - Oxford Clarendon Press 1987 - 224p x

CONTENTS; I THE PROBLEM OF RIGHTS I; 2 THE ANALYSIS OF RIGHTS 15; 2.I Building Blocks 18; 2.2 Conceptual Alternatives 32; 3 CONVENTIONAL RIGHTS 54; 3.1 Legal Rights 57; 3.2 Institutional Rights 70; 3·3 Non-institutional Rights 79; 4 NATURAL RIGHTS 92; 4.1 The Nature of Natural Rights 93; 4.2 Why Rights Cannot be Natural III; 4·3 Theoretical Alternatives 126; 5 CONTRACTARIAN RIGHTS 129; 5· I The Concept of a Moral Right 132; 5.2 The Contractarian's Dilemma 151; 6 CONSEQUENTIALIST RIGHTS 163; 6.I Consequentialist Goals 165; 6.2 Goal-based Constraints 175; 7 ASPECTS OF A THEORY OF RIGHTS 199; BIBLIOGRAPHY 214; INDEX 219

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