This central volume in the Collected Essays brings together John Finnis's wide-ranging contribution to fundamental issues in political philosophy. The volume begins by examining the general theory of political community and social justice. It includes the powerful and well-known Maccabaean Lecture on Bills of Rights - a searching critique of Ronald Dworkin's moral-political ar...(展开全部)

Mental disorders are ubiquitous, profoundly disabling and people suffering from them frequently endure the worst conditions of life. In recent decades both mental health and human rights have emerged as areas of practice, inquiry, national policy-making and shared international concern. Human-rights monitoring and reporting are core features of public administration in most cou...(展开全部)

What is a human right? How can we tell whether a proposed human right really is one? How do we establish the content of particular human rights, and how do we resolve conflicts between them? These are pressing questions for philosophers, political theorists, jurisprudents, international lawyers, and activists. James Griffin offers answers in his compelling new investigation of ...(展开全部)

What is a human right? How can we tell whether a proposed human right really is one? How do we establish the content of particular human rights, and how do we resolve conflicts between them? These are pressing questions for philosophers, political theorists, jurisprudents, international lawyers, and activists. James Griffin offers answers in his compelling new investigation of ...(展开全部)

The way that Americans understand their Constitution and wider legal tradition has been dominated in recent decades by two exhausted approaches: the originalism of conservatives and the “living constitutionalism” of progressives. Is it time to look for an alternative? Adrian Vermeule argues that the alternative has been there, buried in the American legal tradition, all along. ...(展开全部)

Since adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the interpretive General Comment 1, the topic of legal capacity in mental health settings has generated considerable debate in disciplines ranging from law and psychiatry to public health and public policy. With over 180 countries having ratified the Convention, the shifts required in law and clinic...(展开全部)

Globalization promises to bring people around the world together, to unite them as members of the human community. To such sanguine expectations, Pheng Cheah responds deftly with a sobering account of how the “inhuman” imperatives of capitalism and technology are transforming our understanding of humanity and its prerogatives. Through an examination of debates about cosmopolita...(展开全部)

本杰明·格雷格（Benjamin Gregg），供职于美国德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校政治学系，现为牛津大学哲学系客座教授。本科毕业于耶鲁大学，在普林斯顿大学获得硕士学位，分别在普林斯顿大学和德国柏林自由大学获得政治学博士学位和哲学博士学位，擅长政治哲学和复杂现代社会的社会学理论研究。主要作品有《浓厚的道德，稀薄的政治：贯穿社区信仰的社会整合》、《以不确定的规范处理政治事务：开明的地方主义理论》、《人权国家：主权国家之内与之外的正义》、《将人类的本性称为文化设计的生命伦理学：基因工程的政治挑战》（待出）。