Margaret Gilbert presents the first full-length treatment of a central class of rights: demand-rights. To have such a right is to have the standing or authority to demand a particular action of another person. Gilbert argues that joint commitment is a ground of demand-rights, and gives joint commitment accounts of both agreements and promises.
Margaret Gilbert presents the first full-length treatment of a central class of rights: demand-rights. To have such a right is to have the standing or authority to demand a particular action of another person. Gilbert argues that joint commitment is a ground of demand-rights, and gives joint commitment accounts of both agreements and promises.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
A leading figure in the philosophy of social phenomena, Margaret Gilbert has regularly applied her ideas in that field to significant problems in moral and political philosophy and the philosophy of law. Gilbert has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies, and lectured widely in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere. The author of seven books and numerous articles, she holds the Melden Chair in Moral Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Introduction: Rights in the Conversation of Humanity PART I: A PROBLEM POSED 1: Some Central Distinctions from Rights Theory 2: Two Realms of Rights 3: Hohfeld's Claims and Thomson's Doubts 4: Demand-Rights---and the Demand-Right Problem 5: Contemporary Rights Theories: the Problem Remains PART II: THE PROBLEM SOLVED 6: Agreements and Promises; Hume's Legacy 7: Problems with Moral Principle Accounts 8: A Fundamental Ground of Demand-Rights 9: A Theory of Agreements and Promises 10: The Ubiquity of Joint Commitment PART III: DEMAND-RIGHTS, MORALITY, AND LAW 11: Are There any Moral Demand-Rights? Part I 12: Are There any Moral Demand-Rights? Part II 13: Demand-Rights, Law, and other Institutions 14: Human Rights in Light of the Foregoing
Introduction: Rights in the Conversation of Humanity PART I: A PROBLEM POSED 1: Some Central Distinctions from Rights Theory 2: Two Realms of Rights 3: Hohfeld's Claims and Thomson's Doubts 4: Demand-Rights---and the Demand-Right Problem 5: Contemporary Rights Theories: the Problem Remains PART II: THE PROBLEM SOLVED 6: Agreements and Promises; Hume's Legacy 7: Problems with Moral Principle Accounts 8: A Fundamental Ground of Demand-Rights 9: A Theory of Agreements and Promises 10: The Ubiquity of Joint Commitment PART III: DEMAND-RIGHTS, MORALITY, AND LAW 11: Are There any Moral Demand-Rights? Part I 12: Are There any Moral Demand-Rights? Part II 13: Demand-Rights, Law, and other Institutions 14: Human Rights in Light of the Foregoing
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