The Idea of a Right: A treatise on the concept of natural rightsNewmedia Publishing, 2001 - 307 страници This book is a comprehensive treatise on the concept of a right, or entitlement from the time of the ancient Greeks to the present. The author follows the evolution of a right from philosophical concept to its adoption in the late twentieth century. He is especially interested in teh development and current state of a natural right, which he defines to be the combination of laws that harmonize the workings of the universe, including our own little corner of it, as designed by God. |
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B Atomicity Precision and Moral Quality | 121 |
C Rights and Restraints and Some Limits to Social Atomism | 123 |
Utility Expedience and the Problem of Sociality | 125 |
C Atomicity and Alienation of Rights | 127 |
A Critical Case | 128 |
E Some Conditions for the Good Life | 131 |
Moral and Legal | 134 |
G One Logical Justification for the Concept of a Right | 135 |
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B Natural Law Emergent Interests and Intersecting World Pictures | 26 |
C Atoms Individuals and The Social Void | 28 |
D Locke Atomicity and Human Solidarity | 32 |
More Geometrical Thinking | 34 |
F Hobbesian Determinism Revisited | 36 |
G Hobbesian Rights and Freedoms | 37 |
H A Problem with Hobbes | 38 |
I Human Atomicity and Socialization | 39 |
J More of Hobbesian Incoherence | 41 |
K An Alternative Notion of Justice as Right Order | 43 |
L Justice Sociality and Right Order | 46 |
Sparta | 47 |
N Scholastic Right and Legality | 49 |
O Natural Law and its Ancient Opponents | 50 |
Unconstrained Utility Justice and Agreement | 53 |
Legal and Moral | 54 |
D Obligation Promising and Consent | 57 |
E Agreements Covenants and Tacit Consent | 59 |
F Irrationality and Hobbesian Reason | 61 |
G The Puzzle of Hobbes Will | 62 |
H More of Contracts | 63 |
I The Developing Conditions for Contract | 66 |
J Contracts Real Imagined and Binding | 67 |
K Locke and More Problems with Consent | 70 |
L Aristotle Jean Bodin and Sovereignty | 74 |
M Method and Certitude | 76 |
As Power and as Moral Status | 83 |
O Natural Law and GrecoRoman Philosophical Entitlement | 84 |
P Morality Contingency and Some Limits of Positive Law | 86 |
Q Aristotle Justice and the Common Good | 89 |
R Justice Persons and Entitlement | 90 |
S Liberty Entitlement and Right Order | 92 |
T The Secularization of Individual Value | 94 |
Goods Law and the Modern Person | 95 |
A Dominion and Utility | 97 |
B The Natural the Conventional the Enhancement of the Human Condition | 98 |
C Grotius and the Invention of a Personal Right | 101 |
A Metaphor | 103 |
Atomism Pythagoreanism and the Foundations of the New Political Order | 108 |
B Locke Hobbes Conceptual Evolution and the Atomistic Exemplar | 109 |
C Souls Life Property and the Inalienable | 113 |
D Christianity Hierarchy and Rights | 115 |
E Personal Rights and Political Rights | 116 |
F Locke Political Power and Probable Knowledge | 117 |
Atomism Utilitarianism and Adumbrated Natural Law | 120 |
Method Mechanism and Cosmic Assumptions | 137 |
B Methods Discovery and Validation | 139 |
C Method and Mechanism | 140 |
The Competing Alternatives | 143 |
E Particularity the A Priori and Historical Method | 146 |
F Method and Apodicity | 149 |
G Thought Experiments and Political Theories | 151 |
Right Natural Law and Some Contemporary Substitutes | 153 |
B Utility Nature and Derivative Value | 155 |
C Further Speculation on Conceptual Evolution | 158 |
D Morality without Transcendent Norms | 160 |
E A Problem with Utilitarianism | 163 |
F Utility and the Redefinition of Justice | 164 |
G Creativity and Moral Construction | 169 |
H Subjectivity and an Objective Ethics | 174 |
I More on God and the Meaning of Utility | 178 |
J Natural Law and Its Competitors | 181 |
K A Non Theistic Contemporary Natural Law Revision | 184 |
L More on the Roots of Some Difficulties With Contemporary Social Theory | 188 |
M A Contemporary Rational Derivation of Rights | 190 |
The Flight From Atomism and Pythagoreanism and the Liberal Alternative | 194 |
B Liberalism Fascism and Marxism | 197 |
Egos and Non Rational Value | 201 |
B Individuals and Groups | 202 |
C A Non Rational Theory of Value | 203 |
D Life Dualism and Quality | 208 |
Old Wine in New Bottles | 212 |
Liberalism and Some of Its Limits | 222 |
A The State Society Limits and Political Rights | 225 |
B Justice and Rights in Evolution | 229 |
C Disposition Power and Evolution | 230 |
D The Living Good | 232 |
E Obligation Revisited | 233 |
Objective Process | 241 |
G The Progressive and the Just | 243 |
H Augustine Limits and State Power | 244 |
Justification and Value | 248 |
A Tools Rules and Collective Rights | 251 |
B Rights and Checks | 254 |
C Relative Universality | 255 |
D Rights Limitations and Justice | 257 |
E Rational Obligation | 258 |
End Notes | 262 |
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Credits Copyrights and Links | 305 |
Order Form | 307 |
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