TY - BOOK ID - 6782986 TI - Rights and reason : an introduction to the philosophy of rights PY - 2003 SN - 1902683730 1902683749 9781844653461 1844653463 9781317489351 1317489357 1282921479 9781282921474 9781902683744 1317489349 9781317489344 1315710579 9781315710570 9786612921476 6612921471 9781317489337 9781902683737 PB - Durham : Acumen Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Human rights KW - Ethics. KW - Reason. KW - Philosophy. KW - Civil rights KW - Mind KW - Intellect KW - Rationalism KW - Deontology KW - Ethics, Primitive KW - Ethology KW - Moral philosophy KW - Morality KW - Morals KW - Philosophy, Moral KW - Science, Moral KW - Philosophy KW - Values KW - Human rights - Philosophy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:6782986 AB - In Rights and Reason Jonathan Gorman sets discussion of the 'rights debate'; within a wide-ranging philosophical and historical framework. Drawing on positions in epistemology, metaphysics and the theory of human nature as well as on the ideas of canonical thinkers Gorman provides an introduction to the philosophy of rights that is firmly grounded in the history of philosophy as well as the concerns of contemporary political and legal philosophy. The book gives readers a clear sense that, just as there are arguments about the content of rights, and just as there are myriad claims to rights, so there are pluralities of theories of rights that offer some understanding of the moral and legal realm and of the place rights may hold within it. Gorman argues that in a pluralist context of inconsistent rights we require pragmatic procedures rather than universal principles of justice to resolve conflicting claims. ER -