Rights, Justice, and the Bounds of Liberty : : Essays in Social Philosophy / / Joel Feinberg.

This volume of essays by one of America's preeminent philosophers in the area of jurisprudence and moral philosophy gathers together fourteen papers that had been published in widely scattered and not readily accessible sources. All of the essays deal with the political ideals of liberty and ju...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1980
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Series of Collected Essays ; 148
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Sources and Acknowledgments
  • 1. The Idea of a Free Man
  • 2. The Interest in Liberty on the Scales
  • 3. Harm and Self-interest
  • 4. "Harmless Immoralities" and Offensive Nuisances
  • 5. Legal Paternalism
  • 6. Duties, Rights, and Claims
  • 7. The Nature and Value of Rights
  • 8. The Rights of Animals and Unborn Generations
  • 9. Human Duties and Animal Rights
  • 10. Is There a Right to Be Born?
  • 11. Voluntary Euthanasia and the Inalienable Right to Life
  • 12. Duty and Obligation in the Non-Ideal World
  • 13. Noncomparative Justice
  • 14. Wollaston and His Critics
  • Index