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Author: William A. Edmundson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-09-28
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 0521624541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book exposes fallacies inspired by the idea that coercion seems inseparable from government and in doing so shows that living in a just state remains a worthy ideal.
Author: Jeremy Bentham
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Published: 1843
Total Pages: 620
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William A. Edmundson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-06-27
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780521037518
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow is a legitimate state possible? Obedience, coercion, and intrusion are three ideas that seem inseparable from all government and seem to render state authority presumptively illegitimate. This book exposes three fallacies inspired by these ideas and in doing so challenges assumptions shared by liberals, libertarians, cultural conservatives, moderates, and Marxists. In three clear and tightly-argued essays William Edmundson dispels these fallacies and shows that living in a just state remains a worthy ideal. This is an important book for all philosophers, political scientists, and legal theorists as well as readers interested in the views of Rawls, Dworkin, and Nozick, many of whose central ideas are subjected to rigorous critique.
Author: Robert Paul Wolff
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1998-09-28
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780520215733
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith a new preface, Robert Paul Wolff's classic analysis of the foundations of the authority of the state and the problems of political authority and moral autonomy in a democracy.
Author: Robert Nozick
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 063119780X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert Nozicka s Anarchy, State, and Utopia is a powerful, philosophical challenge to the most widely held political and social positions of our age ---- liberal, socialist and conservative.
Author: Jeremy Waldron
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-10-03
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1317587219
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Nonsense upon Stilts ̧ first published in 1987, Waldron includes and discusses extracts from three classic critiques of the idea of natural rights embodied in the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen. Each text is prefaced by an historical introduction and an analysis of its main themes. The collection as a whole in introduced with an essay tracing the philosophical background to the three critiques as well as the eighteenth-century idea of natural rights which they attacked. But the point of reproducing these works is not merely historical. Modern attacks on ‘rights-based’ political philosophy mirror the concerns of Bentham, Burke and Marx. Jeremy Waldron has therefore added an extensive concluding essay which relates these classic texts to the modern discussion of rights and re-examines the idea of rights in the light of contemporary critiques. This text provides an invaluable teaching tool for courses in politics and philosophy.
Author: William A. Edmundson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-01-23
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1107010985
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA thoroughly updated second edition that is an accessible introduction to the history, logic, moral implications and political tendencies of the idea of rights.
Author: William Atkins Edmundson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780847692552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe question, 'Why should I obey the law?' introduces a contemporary puzzle that is as old as philosophy itself. The puzzle is especially troublesome if we think of cases in which breaking the law is not otherwise wrongful, and in which the chances of getting caught are negligible. Philosophers from Socrates to H.L.A. Hart have struggled to give reasoned support to the idea that we do have a general moral duty to obey the law but, more recently, the greater number of learned voices has expressed doubt that there is any such duty, at least as traditionally conceived. The thought that there is no such duty poses a challenge to our ordinary understanding of political authority and its legitimacy. In what sense can political officials have a right to rule us if there is no duty to obey the laws they lay down? Some thinkers, concluding that a general duty to obey the law cannot be defended, have gone so far as to embrace philosophical anarchism, the view that the state is necessarily illegitimate. Others argue that the duty to obey the law can be grounded on the idea of consent, or on fairness, or on other ideas, such as community.
Author: Larry Alexander
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-06-06
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780521822930
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA sceptical appraisal of the claim that freedom of expression is a human right.
Author: Gerald Dworkin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-08-28
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 1316025462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe moral issues involved in doctors assisting patients to die with dignity are of absolutely central concern to the medical profession, ethicists, and the public at large. The debate is fuelled by cases that extend far beyond passive euthanasia to the active consideration of killing by physicians. The need for a sophisticated but lucid exposition of the two sides of the argument is now urgent. This book supplies that need. Two prominent philosophers, Gerald Dworkin and R. G. Frey present the case for legalization of physician-assisted suicide. One of the best-known ethicists in the US, Sissela Bok, argues the case against.
