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Moral Rights and Political Freedom

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Summary

Full Title: Moral Rights and Political Freedom Author(s): Tara Smith Year Published: 1997 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Publication Type: Academic ISBN-10: 0-8476-8026-6 (hardcover), 0-8476-8027-4 (paperback) ISBN-13: Description: In her introduction, Smith describes her book as follows: "Broadly, the presentation of my case consists of clarification of what rights are, clarification of what political freedom is, and a demonstration of why individuals are entitled to freedom."

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction

Part I -- Rights

1. What Rights Are>
   • The Subject Matter
   • Prevailing Accounts
   • What Rights Are
     • The Right To Do Wrong
     • Corollary Characteristics of Rights
2. The Justification of Rights
   • Overview
   • The Argument
   • Rights' Telos
   • Objections
3. The Egoism of Rights
   • Egoism and Altruism
   • How Rights Rest on Egoism
     • Rights' Egoistic Telos
     • Egoism in Respecting Others' Rights
   • Rights' Incompatibility with Altruism
     • Altruism, Freedom, and Moral Agency
4. The Failures of Deontology and Consequentialism
   • The Deontological Conception of Rights
   • Shortcomings of Deontological Rights
   • The Consequentialist Conception of Rights
   • Shortcomings of Consequentialist Rights
   • False Alternatives
5. Teleological Rights: Purpose Through Principle
   • The Difference between Teleological and Consequentialist Conceptions of Rights
   • Is This Rule Consequentialism?
   • Rights' Authority: Contextually Absolute

Part II -- Freedom

6. Freedom
   • What Freedom Is
   • Action
   • A Classic Account of Freedom
   • Freedom from What?
7. Freedom's Nemesis: Physical Force
   • What Force Is
   • When Force Violates Freedom
   • How Force Violates Freedom
     • Direct Application
     • Threats
   • Freedom's Normativity
   • The Significance of Physical Pressure
   • Force and Harm
8. "Positive" Freedom
   • The Positive-Negative Distinction
   • Critique
     • General Difficulties
     • The Enabling Conditions Model
     • The Ideal Deployment Model
9. The Rights We Hold
   • The Right to Life
   • The Right to Property
   • The Right to Welfare
   • Rights Conflicts
   • Welfare Rights Revisited

• Selected List of Works Consulted
• Index
• About the Author

Related Links

• Homepage of Tara Smith

Reviews, Criticism and Analysis

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The following perspectives on this book are available online:

• By Irfan Khawaja for Reason Papers
• By William Thomas for the IOS Journal

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