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Real Rights

Real Rights

Wellman, Carl

Hardcover

PhilosophyGeneral Law

ISBN10: 0195095006
ISBN13: 9780195095005
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: May 18 1995
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.43
Height: 0.98 Width: 7.18 Depth: 8.42
Language: English
Real Rights offers a new theory of the grounds of legal and moral rights, thereby providing a platform from which to determine whether alleged rights are real or not. In particular, Wellman conceives of a legal or moral right as a complex of liberties, claims, powers, and immunities, and distinguishes the kinds of laws and moral reasons that can ground each of these. The book argues that only agents can be right-holders, that children and the mentally-limited can have only limited rights, while fetuses, the dead, and groups can have none. It also discusses the duties implied by any real right, as well as the kinds of considerations (including conflicting rights) that could override implied duties. This original and systematic discussion of the grounds of rights should interest a wide range of scholars and practitioners in philosophy, law, and political science.

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