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New. Since the seventeenth century, concern in the Western world for the welfare of the individual has been articulated philosophically most often as a concern for his rights. The modern conception of individual rights resulted from abandonment of ancient, value-laced ideas of nature and their replacement by the modern, mathematically transparent idea of nature that has room only for individuals, often in conflict. In A Philosophical History of Rights, Gary B. Herbert traces the historical evolution of the concept and the transformation of the problems through which the concept is defined. The volume examines the early history of rights as they existed in ancient Greece, and locates the first philosophical inquiry into the nature of rights in Platonic and Aristotelian accounts. He traces Roman jurisprudence to the advent of Christianity, to the divine right of kings. Herbert follows the historical evolution of modern subjective rights, the attempts by Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Fichte, and Hegel to…
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- Title A Philosophical History of Rights
- Author Gary Herbert
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- Pages 380
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge
- Date 2003-08-31
- ISBN 9780765805423 / 0765805421
- Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6.06 x 1.07 in (22.61 x 15.39 x 2.72 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 323
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