Re-thinking rights historical development and philosophical justification
"This book takes a new look at the history of individual rights, focusing on how philosophers have written that history. Eleanor Curran argues that the turn to jurisprudence, after the philosophical rejection of natural rights, has resulted in an impoverished notion of rights as no more than cl...
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Lanham, Maryland
Lexington Books,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part 1. The History of Rights Theory. The Beginning: The Rise of the Idea of Natural Rights
- The Philosophical Discrediting of Natural Law and Natural Rights
- Does Hobbes Rather than Locke Provide a Forerunner to Modern Theories of Rights?
- The Jurisprudential Turn in Rights Theorising
- Reading Historical Writing on Rights: The Distorting Influence of Hohfeld
- Part 2. Current and Future Rights Theory: Assessing the Philosophy of Rights. The Continuing Dominance of Hohfeld
- Current Theories of Rights: The Will and Interest Theories and Theories of Human Rights
- Thoughts for Future Rights Theorising.