| Description |
xiv, 366 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Essays on justification: Basis and content of human rights: Addendum: replies to some criticisms -- Must one play the moral language game? -- "Is-ought" problem resolved -- Golden Rule rationalized -- Can utilitarianism justify any moral rights? -- Future of ethics: the moral powers of reason -- pt. 2. Essays on applications: Human rights and the prevention of cancer -- Starvation and human rights -- Are there any absolute rights? -- Individual rights and political-military obligations -- Obligation: political, legal, moral -- Civil disobedience, law, and morality -- Civil liberties as effective powers -- Reasons and conscience: the claims of the selective conscientious objector. |
| Subject |
Civil rights.
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Civil rights. |
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Civil rights -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Civil rights -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Human rights.
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Human rights. |
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Human rights -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Human rights -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
| Indexed Term |
Human rights |
| Subject |
Droits de l'homme. |
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Droits de l'homme -- Aspect moral. |
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Mensenrechten. |
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Ethische aspecten. |
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Human rights. |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Gewirth, Alan. Human rights. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1982 (OCoLC)558215404 |
| ISBN |
0226288773 |
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9780226288772 |
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0226288781 paperback |
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9780226288789 paperback |
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