Jean HamptonThe Intrinsic Worth of Persons
Herausgeber: Farnham, Daniel
Jean Hampton completed her PhD under the direction of John Rawls at Harvard University. She was a Harvard Knox Fellow at Cambridge University, Pew Evangelical Scholar, and a distinguished visiting lecturer at Dalhousie University, University of Notre Dame, Pomona College, and Bristol University. She taught at several American institutions, most recently the University of Arizona, where she was a professor of philosophy at the time of her death in 1996. Her last book, The Authority of Reason, was published posthumously in 1998.
Introduction
1. Feminist contractarianism
2. Selflessness and loss of self
3. Mens Rea
4. Correcting harms versus righting wrongs: the goal of retribution
5. The common faith of liberalism
6. The contractarian explanation of the state.
