David Alm

Moral Rights and Their Grounds

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a novel theory of rights based on two distinct views. The first-the value view of rights-argues that for a person to have a right is to be valuable in a certain way, or to have a value property.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781032094113
• ISBN-10: 1032094117
• Artikelnr.: 62149088

Autorenporträt

David Alm is an associate professor of practical philosophy at the University of Lund, Sweden. He works mostly in moral and social philosophy, and has published extensively in these fields.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: The Value View 1. The Value View: The Basics 2. The
Components of a Claim 3. In Defense of the Value View Part II: The Agency
View 4. The Agency View: The Basics 5. The Components of Owing:
Exclusionary Reasons and Relationality 6. How Agency Generates Rights 7.
The Strength of Rights 8. The Moral Significance of Rights 9. The Agency
View and Right Loss Part III: Exercise-Based Rights 10. Rejecting the
Agency View: The Options 11. Exercise-Based Rights: The Very Idea 12.
Exercise-Based Rights: Why Accept Them?