1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996248181403316

Autore

Singer Beth J. <1927->

Titolo

Pragmatism, rights, and democracy [[electronic resource] /] / Beth J. Singer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2019

ISBN

0-8232-8485-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 207 p. )

Collana

American philosophy series, ; no. 11

Disciplina

323/.01

Soggetti

Human rights

Communities

Individualism

Pragmatism

Human Rights

Law, Politics & Government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-195) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

The author's theory of rights was developed in an earlier work. This successor volume includes applications, lectures, replies to critics, and clarifications. For the author, rights exist only if they are embedded in the operative practices of a community. People have a right in a community if their claim is acknowledged, and if they would acknowledge similar claims by others. This account contrasts with theories of natural rights, which state that humans have rights by virtue of being human. It also differs from Kantian attempts to derive rights from the necessary conditions of rationality. While denying that rights exist independently of a community's practices, the text maintains that rights to personal autonomy and authority ought to exist in all communities. Group rights, an anathema among individualistic theories, are a valuable institution. The work's discussion of rights appropriate for minority communities is particularly illuminating as a model of careful reasoning.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910700813803321

Titolo

Environmental assessment : Cold Springs project, Northern Hills Ranger District, Black Hills National Forest, Lawrence County, South Dakota

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Spearfish, SD : , : United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, , [2011]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 unnumbered pages) : maps (chiefly color)

Soggetti

Mountain pine beetle - Control - Environmental aspects

Ponderosa pine - Protection

Environmental impact statements - South Dakota - Lawrence County

Northern Hills Ranger District (S.D.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Nov. 10, 2014).

"July 2011."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-124).



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA990008957700403321

Titolo

Essays in medical biochemistry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : [s.n.]

ISSN

0306-2872

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico