Griffin on human rights / edited by Roger Crisp.

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Crisp, Roger, 1961- [editor.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (xiv, 237 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780191645990
0191645990
1322154112
9781322154114

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Griffin on human rights.DDC classification:

323.0 23

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JC571

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Contents:

Two approaches to human rights / Carl Wellman -- Taking rights out of human rights / John Tasioulas -- When the good alone isn't good enough / David A. Reidy -- The egalitarianism of human rights / Allen Buchanan -- Human rights, human agency and respect : extending Griffin's view / Rowan Cruft -- Griffin on human rights : form and substance / Roger Crisp -- Personhood versus human needs as grounds for human rights / David Miller -- Griffin on human rights / Brad Hooker -- Griffin on human rights to liberty / James W. Nickel -- Replies / James Griffin.

Summary: This volume presents responses to the work of James Griffin, one of the most significant contributors to the contemporary debate over human rights. Leading moral and political philosophers engage with Griffin's views - according to which human rights are best understood as protections of our agency and personhood - and Griffin offers his own reply.

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This volume presents responses to the work of James Griffin, one of the most significant contributors to the contemporary debate over human rights. Leading moral and political philosophers engage with Griffin's views - according to which human rights are best understood as protections of our agency and personhood - and Griffin offers his own reply.

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