This book presents a valuable clarification and defence of human rights by Italy's leading political theorist.

This book presents a valuable clarification and defence of human rights by Italy's leading political theorist.

The concept of a right is fundamental to moral, political, and legal thinking, but much of the use of that concept is selective and fragmentary: it is common merely to appeal to this or that intuitively plausible attribution of rights as needed for purposes of argument. In The Realm of Rights Judith Thomson provides a full-scale, systematic theory of human and social rights, br...(展开全部)

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The concept of a right is fundamental to moral, political, and legal thinking, but much of the use of that concept is selective and fragmentary: it is common merely to appeal to this or that intuitively plausible attribution of rights as needed for purposes of argument. In The Realm of Rights Judith Thomson provides a full-scale, systematic theory of human and social rights, br...(展开全部)

I present you a small treatise in defence of those principles of freedom which your exemplary virtue hath so eminently contributed to establish. That the Rights of Man may become as universal as your benevolence can wish, and that you may enjoy the happiness of seeing the New World regenerate the Old.

In this fascinating history of the origins of the Bill of Rights, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Leonard W. Levy offers a panoramic view of the liberties secured by the first ten amendments to the Constitution. Levy illuminates the behind-the-scenes manoeuvrings, public rhetoric, and political motivations of James Madison and others who overcame fierce opposition to ensure th...(展开全部)

[美]伦纳德·W.利维（Leonard W. Levy, 1923－2006） 著名历史学家、法律史学家，生前为克莱蒙特研究生大学梅隆荣休教授和历史学研究生部主席，南俄勒冈州立大学驻校学者。主要研究美国宪法史，一生出版专著36部，包括《杰斐逊与公民自由：更黑暗的一面》《宗教和第一修正案》《第五修正案的起源》等，其中《第五修正案的起源》获得1969年的普利策奖。

John Locke's political theory has been the subject of many detailed treatments by philosophers and political scientists. But "The Lockean Theory of Rights" is the first systematic, full-length study of Locke's theory of rights and of its potential for making genuine contributions to contemporary debates about rights and their place in political philosophy. Given that the rights...(展开全部)