A Holistic Approach to Rights: Affirmative Action, Reproductive Rights, Censorship, and Future Generations - Couverture souple

Schlossberger, Eugene

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0761839372 ISBN 13 : 9780761839378

Editeur : University Press of America, 2007

Synopsis

Applying new theories about rights to pressing social issues, A Holistic Approach to Rights suggests major changes are needed in the ways we think about rights and formulating social policy. Part I analyzes rights as networks of warrants_socially recognized sanctions for doing, saying, demanding, believing, feeling, or thinking something as one's due. On this account, rights are more varied and play a more diverse and open-ended role in legal and moral thinking than most theories of rights allow. A new theory of natural rights treats them as claims that every person has upon the state, as a condition of legitimacy, to make adequate provision for those features of human life that require force against persons to be justified. Moral rights, such as the right to the truth, derive from team loyalty due fellow members of the moral community and can be lost by someone who acts in ways that undermine the moral enterprise. Part II provides detailed analyses of affirmative action, group rights, the rights of future generations, reproductive rights, the use of new reproductive technologies, and speech rights. Specific conclusions include an innovative proposal for regulating violence and pornography in the media.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Eugene Schlossberger is the author of Moral Responsibility and Persons, The Ethical Engineer, "A New Model of Business: Dual-Investor Theory," and articles on ethical theory, business ethics, engineering ethics, political philosophy, family therapy, and the logic of counterfactuals.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of America
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0761839372
• ISBN 13: 9780761839378
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 364
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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