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Re-thinking rights historical development and philosophical justification Eleanor Curran.

By: Curran, Eleanor, 1956-Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham, Maryland Lexington Books, [2022]Description: 1 online resourceISBN: 1498547885; 9781498547888Other title: Rethinking rightsSubject(s): Human rights | Civil rights | Law -- Philosophy | Law and ethics | Human Rights | Droits de l'homme (Droit international) | Droit et morale | Civil rights | Human rights | Law and ethics | Law -- PhilosophyGenre/Form: EBSCO eBooks | Electronic books. DDC classification: 323 LOC classification: JC571Online resources: EBSCOhost
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.
Summary: "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 claims and entitlements"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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 claims and entitlements"-- Provided by publisher.

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