Moral Rights and Political Freedom

By: Tara Smith

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Paperback | 28 September 1995

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Seeking a way out of today's bewildering rush of rights claims, Tara Smith's Moral Rights and Political Freedom offers a systematic account of the nature and foundations of rights. The book carefully elucidates what political freedom is and demonstrates why it should be protected by rights. Smith's thesis is that rights are teleological: respect for freedom is necessary for individuals' flourishing or eudaimonia. Smith illustrates how many alleged rights would actually undermine that objective. Her decisive refutation of the assumption that conflicts between rights are inevitable—demonstrating how such conflicts are theoretically incoherent and practically self-defeating—should go a long way toward resolving many contemporary disputes about rights.

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Non-Fiction Politics & Government Political Control & Freedoms Human Rights Civil Rights & Citizenship Political Science & Theory Philosophy Ethics & Moral Philosophy Sociology & Anthropology Sociology

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
What Rights Are	p. 15
The Justification of Rights	p. 31
The Egoism of Rights	p. 61
The Failures of Deontology and Consequentialism	p. 85
Teleological Rights: Purpose Through Principle	p. 101
Freedom	p. 123
Freedom's Nemesis: Physical Force	p. 141
"Positive" Freedom	p. 165
The Rights We Hold	p. 185
Selected List of Works Consulted	p. 211
Index	p. 221
About the Author	p. 225
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