Theories of Rights

Download or read book Theories of Rights written by C.L. Ten and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To those who invoke them, rights are powerful instruments for settling arguments in favour of the right-holders. But the nature, provenance and justification of rights are uncertain and disputed and there are doubts about whether rights should play a distinctive and fundamental role in moral and political discourse. More recent disgreements have centred on group rights and on whether rights have a universal application across different cultures and moral traditions. These and other related issues are explored in depth by the essays in this volume, which are mostly drawn from a wide range of journals in philosophy, politics and law.