Natural Rights and the Right to Choose
Author: Hadley Arkes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-09-02
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780521812184
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Natural Rights Liberalism from Locke to Nozick: Volume 22, Part 1
Author: Ellen Frankel Paul
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780521615143
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The essays in this book have also been published, without introduction and index, in the semiannual journal Social philosophy & policy, volume 22, number 1"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.
What's Wrong with Rights?
Author: Nigel Biggar
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 0198861974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat's Wrong with Rights? argues that contemporary rights-talk obscures the importance civic virtue, military effectiveness and the democratic law legitimacy. It draws upon legal and moral philosophy, moral theology, and court judgments. It spans discussions from medieval Christendom to contemporary debates about justified killing.
Natural Rights Theories
Author: Richard Tuck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780521285094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe origins of natural rights theories in medieval Europe and their development in the seventeenth century.
Natural Law, Laws of Nature, Natural Rights
Author: Francis Oakley
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2005-09-22
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 0826417655
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChoice Outstanding Academic Title 2006 The existence and grounding of human or natural rights is a heavily contested issue today, not only in the West but in the debates raging between "fundamentalists" and "liberals" or "modernists in the Islamic world. So, too, are the revised versions of natural law espoused by thinkers such as John Finnis and Robert George. This book focuses on three bodies of theory that developed between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries: (1) the foundational belief in the existence of a moral/juridical natural law, embodying universal norms of right and wrong and accessible to natural human reason; (2) the understanding of (scientific) uniformities of nature as divinely imposed laws, which rose to prominence in the seventeenth century; and (3), finally, the notion that individuals are bearers of inalienable natural or human rights. While seen today as distinct bodies of theory often locked in mutual conflict, they grew up inextricably intertwines. The book argues that they cannot be properly understood if taken each in isolation from the others.
The Idea of Natural Rights
Author: Brian Tierney
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780802848543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis series, originally published by Scholars Press and now available from Eerdmans, is intended to foster exploration of the religious dimensions of law, the legal dimensions of religion, and the interaction of legal and religious ideas, institutions, and methods. Written by leading scholars of law, political science, and related fields, these volumes will help meet the growing demand for literature in the burgeoning interdisciplinary study of law and religion.
Natural Right and History
Author: Leo Strauss
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013-12-27
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 022622645X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this classic work, Leo Strauss examines the problem of natural right and argues that there is a firm foundation in reality for the distinction between right and wrong in ethics and politics. On the centenary of Strauss's birth, and the fiftieth anniversary of the Walgreen Lectures which spawned the work, Natural Right and History remains as controversial and essential as ever. "Strauss . . . makes a significant contribution towards an understanding of the intellectual crisis in which we find ourselves . . . [and] brings to his task an admirable scholarship and a brilliant, incisive mind."—John H. Hallowell, American Political Science Review Leo Strauss (1899-1973) was the Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Political Science at the University of Chicago.
First Things
Author: Hadley Arkes
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-06-16
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 0691213895
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book restores to us an understanding that was once settled in the "moral sciences": that there are propositions, in morals and law, which are not only true but which cannot be otherwise. It was understood in the past that, in morals or in mathematics, our knowledge begins with certain axioms that must hold true of necessity; that the principles drawn from these axioms hold true universally, unaffected by variations in local "cultures"; and that the presence of these axioms makes it possible to have, in the domain of morals, some right answers. Hadley Arkes restates the grounds of that older understanding and unfolds its implications for the most vexing political problems of our day. The author turns first to the classic debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. After establishing the groundwork and properties of moral propositions, he traces their application in such issues as selective conscientious objection, justifications for war, the war in Vietnam, a nation's obligation to intervene abroad, the notion of supererogatory acts, the claims of "privacy," and the problem of abortion.
Beyond the Constitution
Author: Hadley Arkes
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1992-09-28
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780691025544
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHadley Arkes argues that it is necessary to move "beyond the Constitution," to the principles that stood antecedent to the text, if we are to understand the text and apply the Constitution to the cases that arise every day in our law.
Property and Justice
Author: Billy Christmas
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-03-30
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1000370070
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book gives an account of a full spectrum of property rights and their relationship to individual liberty. It shows that a purely deontological approach to justice can deal with the most complex questions regarding the property system. Moreover, the author considers the economic, ecological, and technological complexities of our real-world property systems. The result is a more conceptually sound account of natural rights and the property system they demand. If we think that liberty should be at the centre of justice, what does that mean for the property system? Economists and lawyers widely agree that a property system must be composed of many different types of property: the kind of private ownership one has over one’s person and immediate possessions, as well as the kinds of common ownership we each have in our local streets, as well as many more. However, theories of property and justice have not given anything approaching an adequate account of the relationship between liberty and any other form of property other than private ownership. It is often thought that a basic commitment to liberty cannot really tell us how to arrange the major complexities of the property system, which diverge from simple private ownership. Property and Justice demonstrates how philosophical rigour coupled with interdisciplinary engagement enables us to think clearly about how to deal with real-world problems. It will be of interest to political philosophers, political theorists, and legal theorists working on property rights and justice.
