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Human Rights, Ownership, and the Individual - Softcover

Cruft, Rowan

 
9780192855336: Human Rights, Ownership, and the Individual
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0192855336 ISBN 13: 9780192855336
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Rowan Cruft develops an original theory of rights that partially vindicates this concept's central place in modern moral, political and legal thinking. He defends human rights law as institutionalising pre-legal moral rights, and he calls into question property as an individual right.

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About the Author

Rowan Cruft, Professor of Philosophy, University of Stirling,Rowan Cruft, University of Stirling

Rowan Cruft is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Stirling. His work focuses on the nature and moral foundation of rights and duties. He is the co-editor of Crime, Punishment, and Responsibility (OUP, 2011) and of Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights (OUP, 2015). His research examines the nature and justification of rights and duties, and their role in shaping a democratic public sphere.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0192855336
ISBN 13 
9780192855336
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
304