This book provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary thought about rights. It examines what it is to have a right and what is distinctive about political moralities that give a fundamental place to rights. The varied grounds and implications of claiming rights to liberties, socio-economic rights and democratic rights are considered and the book concludes with an examination of the theoretical objections and the practical difficulties that proponents of rights have to confront.
| ISBN: | 9780333361368 |
| Publication date: | 14th December 1994 |
| Author: | Peter Jones |
| Publisher: | Red Globe Press an imprint of Macmillan Education UK |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 258 pages |
| Series: | Issues in Political Theory |
| Genres: |
Political science and theory Human rights, civil rights Social and political philosophy |