9780674749481 - The Realm of Rights by Thomson, Jj (12 results)

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Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, viii, 383 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good plus dust jacket. Spine green/white with green and white lettering. Exterior has some rubbing wear to the head/tail edges. Boards show slight sunning and mild wear including bumped fore corners. Text block has very faint wear to the edges. First edition, first printing. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column H, ND-H. 1378851. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. This is an Ex-Libris book with the usual library markings on the spine and title page. Otherwise in very good condition with no underlining or creases.

Hardback. Condition: Good. The concept of a right is fundamental to moral, political, and legal thinking, but much of the use of that concept is selective and fragmentary: it is common merely to appeal to this or that intuitively plausible attribution of rights as needed for purposes of argument. In The Realm of Rights Judith Thomson provides a full-scale, systematic theory of human and social rights, bringing out what in general makes an attribution of a right true. Thomson says that the question what it is to have a right precedes the question which rights we have, and she therefore begins by asking why our having rights is a morally significant fact about us. She argues that a person's having a right is reducible to a complex moral constraint: central to that constraint is that, other things being equal, the right ought to be accorded. Thomson asks what those other things are that may or may not be equal, and describes the tradeoffs that relieve us of the requirement to accord a right. Our rights fall into two classes, those we have by virtue of being human beings and those we have by virtue of private interactions and law. Thomson argues that the first class includes rights that others not kill or harm us, but does not include rights that others meet our needs. The second class includes rights that issue from promises and consent, and Thomson shows how they are generated; she also argues that property rights issue only from a legitimate legal system, so that the second class includes them as well. The Realm of Rights will take its place as a major effort to provide a stable foundation for our deeply held belief that we are not mere cogs in a communal machine, but are instead individuals whose private interests are entitled to respect.

Hardcover. With jacket. viii+383pp. Fine condition with a near fine jacket. From the first printing, in 1990. The jacket shows moderate shelfwear, almost entirely at its top (see photograph). The book itself is in something close to very fine condition: boards and corners perfect, spine tight/binding sound, pages remarkably crisp and entirely free of markings. There is a small chip at the top of page 111. Bound in teal cloth, with stamped white lettering to the spine. Every order includes tracking and is wrapped and robustly packaged with care in Tucson, AZ. ~Mesquite Booksellers.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Number line beginning with 1. Date on title page. Fine hardback in near fine plus, if not fine unpriced, unclipped dust jacket. Dust jacket has a 3/4 inch closed tear to top edge of rear panel at spine; wear/hairline creases to 1/4 inch of spine head; and trivial wear to corners, edges and fore-edge folds. Only trivial, if any additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Boards are very slightly toned and worn at edges, otherwise nice, sharp and clean. Internally, nice and clean throughout. Dust jacket has some shelf wear, edges and corners worn, top edge of dust jacket rear had 2 small (<1") tears. A very good, solid copy. All of our books are individually inspected and described. Never X-library unless specifically described as such.

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