02049nam a22003618a 4500001001600000003000700016005001700023006001900040007001500059008004100074020002600115020002900141020003000170040002400200050002200224082001200246100003600258245007700294250001200371264005200383300005900435336002600494337002600520338003600546490005000582500007300632520079100705650001701496650001701513776003501530830005101565856007101616CR9780511820670UkCbUP20180107143416.0m|||||o||d||||||||cr||||||||||||101115s2012||||enk     s     ||1 0|eng|d  a9780511820670 (ebook)  z9781107010987 (hardback)  z9781107648197 (paperback)  aUkCbUPcUkCbUPerda00aJC571 b.E42 201200a3232231 aEdmundson, William A.,eauthor.13aAn Introduction to Rights / [electronic resource]cWilliam A. Edmundson.  a2nd ed. 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2012.  a1 online resource (200 pages) :bdigital, PDF file(s).  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier0 aCambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law  aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).  aAn 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. 0aCivil rights 0aHuman rights08iPrint version: z9781107010987 0aCambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law.40uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511820670zCambridge Books Online