Eugene Schlossberger

Holistic Approach to Rights

Affirmative Action, Reproductive Rights, Censorship, and Future Generations

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 591g
• ISBN-13: 9780761839378
• ISBN-10: 0761839372
• Artikelnr.: 23427169

Autorenporträt

Eugene Schlossberger is professor emeritus of philosophy at Purdue University Northwest.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction and Overview
Part 3 I: Theory of Rights
Chapter 4 The Many Flavors of Rights: Entitlements, Liberties, Permissions,
and the Right to Die
Chapter 5 Rights as Warrants
Chapter 6 Why the Correlation Thesis Should Be Discarded
Chapter 7 A New Theory of Natural Rights
Part 8 II: Particular Rights and Applications
Chapter 9 The Right to Speech: Regulating Violence and Pornography in the
Media
Chapter 10 Moral Rights and the Right to the Truth
Chapter 11 Rights of and Obligations to Future Generations
Chapter 12 The Right to Reproduce
Chapter 13 Group Rights, Loyalty, and Affirmative Action
Part 14 Index
Part 15 About the Author