What's Wrong with Rights?
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, 2020
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iWhat's Wrong with Rights?/i 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. | Pages: 375.
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- Title
- What's Wrong with Rights?
- Author
- Nigel Biggar
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year
- 2020
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover/Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0198861974
- ISBN 13
- 9780198861973
These are the questions that What's Wrong with Rights? addresses. In doing so, it draws upon resources in intellectual history, legal philosophy, moral philosophy, moral theology, human rights literature, and the judgments of courts. It ranges from debates about property in medieval Christendom, through Confucian rights-scepticism, to contemporary discussions about the remedy for global hunger and the justification of killing. And it straddles assisted dying in Canada, the military occupation of Iraq, and genocide in Rwanda.
What's Wrong with Rights? concludes that much contemporary rights-talk obscures the importance of fostering civic virtue, corrodes military effectiveness, subverts the democratic legitimacy of law, proliferates publicly onerous rights, and undermines their authority and credibility. The solution to these problems lies in the abandonment of rights-fundamentalism and the recovery of a richer public discourse about ethics, one that includes talk about the duty and virtue of rights-holders.
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