The Withdrawal of Rights: Rights from a Different Perspective / Edition 1

by O. Ezra

Overview

Like most discussions within the tradition of rights-talk, this study is motivated by the desire to promote the idea that rights are moral assets that people should acquire in the course of their membership within social and political frameworks. However, while most participants in rights-talk concentrate on the safety and protection constraints required for a successful exercising of rights, the present study inquires into the circumstances under which people's rights lose their validity. The author believes that if we want to prevent the erosion of the role of rights within society and to encourage their obligatory status, we should prevent their misuse, or their unjustified or excessive use. Those who have interests in rights, and are concerned about their withdrawal or denial, will find a unique and inventive way of dealing both with the use, as well as the abuse of rights.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402008863
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	09/30/2002
Series:	Synthese Library , #314
Edition description:	2002
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

1. The Concept of Rights.- 2. The Identity of Right-Holders.- 3. The Withdrawal of Rights.- 4. Punishment.- 5. Rights of Partial Members of the Moral Community.- Conclusions.- References.- Notes.