Rights and Demands: A Foundational Inquiry

by Margaret Gilbert

Book Overview

Rights are often invoked in contemporary moral and political debates, yet the nature of rights is contested. Rights and Demands provides the first full-length treatment of a central class of rights: demand-rights. To have such a right is to have the standing or authority to demand a particular action of another person. How are such rights possible? Everyday agreements are generally acknowledged to be sources of demand-rights, but what is it about...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198863896
• ISBN13: 9780198863892
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"