TY  - BOOK
AU  - Edmundson,William A.
TI  - An Introduction to Rights
T2  - Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law
SN  - 9780511820670 (ebook)
AV  - JC571 .E42 2012
U1  - 323 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Human rights
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - An Introduction to Rights is a readable and accessible introduction to the history, logic, moral implications and political tendencies of the idea of rights. It is organized chronologically and discusses important historical events such as the French and American Revolutions. It treats a range of historical figures, including Grotius, Paley, Hobbes, Locke, Bentham, Burke, Godwin, Douglass, Mill and Hohfeld and relates the concept of rights to contemporary debates such as consequentialism versus contractualism. This thoroughly updated second edition includes a new preface and expands the discussion of the surprising role that slavery has played in the history of rights. It includes new material on egalitarianism, distributive justice and what the demand for equal rights means
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511820670
ER  -