The Community of Rights - Hardcover

Gewirth, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226288803 ISBN 13: 9780226288802

Verlag: The University of Chicago Press, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Alan Gewirth extends his fundamental principle of equal and universal human rights, the Principle of Generic Consistency, into the arena of social and political philosophy, exploring its implications for both social and economic rights. He argues that the ethical requirements logically imposed on individual action hold equally for the supportive state as a community of rights, whose chief function is to maintain and promote the universal human rights to freedom and well-being. Such social afflictions as unemployment, homelessness, and poverty are basic violations of these rights, which the supportive state is required to overcome. A critical alternative to both "liberal" and "communitarian" views, this book will command the attention of anyone engaged in the debate over social and economic justice.

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Alan Gewirth is the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0226288803
• ISBN 13: 9780226288802
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400
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