Real Rights

by Carl Wellman

Real Rights offers a new theory of the grounds of legal and moral rights, thereby providing a platform from which to determine whether alleged rights are "real" or not. In particular, Wellman conceives of a legal or moral right as a complex of liberties, claims, powers, and immunities, and distinguishes the kinds of laws and moral reasons that can ground each of these. The book argues that only agents can be right-holders, that children and the mentally-limited...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195095006
• ISBN13: 9780195095005
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.2" x 8.4"