What's wrong with rights? / Nigel Biggar.
What's wrong with rights? / Nigel Biggar.
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Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
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G 2021/0156
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English
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x, 362 pages ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Are there natural rights? 1: the sceptical tradition -- Are there natural rights? 2: the sceptical critique and rights before 1776 -- Are there natural rights? 3: the sceptical critique and rights after 1776 -- Are there natural rights? 4. the sceptical critique and the modern Roman Catholic traditi...
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Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
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First edition.
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England
Date Published
2020.
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Are natural rights 'nonsense on stilts', as Jeremy Bentham memorably put it? Must the very notion of a right be individualistic, subverting the common good? Should the right against torture be absolute, even though the heavens fall? Are human rights universal or merely expressions of Western neo-imperial arrogance? Are rights ethically fundamental,...
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What's wrong with rights? / Nigel Biggar.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-351) and index.
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©2020
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G 2021/0156
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74VKa7NaxaBO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKa7NaxaBO
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ISBN
0198861974
9780198861973
DDC
341.48
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991024386514202626
