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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820970803321

Autore

Wellman Carl

Titolo

Real rights / / Carl Wellman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1995

ISBN

0-19-773144-9

1-280-52792-7

0-19-535738-8

1-4294-0602-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

340/.112

Soggetti

Law and ethics

Law - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliography: p272-274. - Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1995.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-274) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1. Grounds of Institutional Rights; 2. Grounds of Moral Positions; 3. Grounds of Moral Rights; 4. Possible Right-Holders; 5. Alleged Right-Holders; 6. Implied Duties; 7. Conflicts of Rights; 8. Real Rights and Duties; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Providing a fresh theory of grounds for legal and moral rights, this treatise argues that only agents can be right-holders, that children and the mentally incapacitated have only limited rights, and that foetuses, the dead, and groups can have none.