N. E. Simmonds, Hillel Steiner, Matthew H. Kramer

A Debate Over Rights

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays forms a lively debate over the fundamental characteristics of legal and moral rights. The essays examine whether rights fundamentally protect individuals' interests or whether they instead fundamentally enable individuals to make choices.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9780198298991
• ISBN-10: 0198298994
• Artikelnr.: 21666727

Autorenporträt

Matthew Kramer is a University Lecturer in Jurisprudence, Cambridge University, and Fellow and Director of Studies in Law, Churchill College, Cambridge. Nigel Simmonds is a Reader in Jurisprudence, Cambridge University, and Fellow and Director of Studies in Law, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Hillel Steiner is Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Manchester.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Rights Without Trimmings
1: Setting the Hohfeldian Table
2: Rights Without Trimmings
Appendix: Getting Hohfeld Right
Rights at the Cutting Edge
1: Background
2: The Fundamental Issues
3: Hohfeld and the Fragmentation of Rights
4: Hohfeld and the Kantians
5: The Interest Theory of Rights
6: The Modern Will Theory
Working Rights
1: Preliminary Intuitions about Rights
2: From Hohfeld to Hart: The Modern Will Theory
3: Some Apparent Problems with the Will Theory
4: From Hart to Kant: The Classical Will Theory (Partly) Redeemed
5: Some Real Problems with the Interest Theory
Index