What is the source of rights? Rights have been grounded in divine agency, human nature, and morally justified claims, and have been used to assess the moral status of legal and customary social practices. The orthodoxy is that some of our rights are a species of unrecognized or natural rights. For example, black slaves in antebellum America were said to have such rights, and this was taken to provide a basis for establishing the immorality of slavery. Derrick Darby exposes the main shortcomings of the orthodox conception of the source of rights and proposes a radical alternative. He draws on the legacy of race and racism in the USA to argue that all rights are products of social recognition. This bold, lucid and meticulously argued book will inspire readers to rethink the central role assigned to rights in moral, political, and legal theory as well as in everyday evaluative discourse.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9780521515405
eBay Product ID (ePID)
90920979
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Civil Service
Author
Derrick Darby
Publication Name
Rights, Race, and Recognition
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
155mm
Item Weight
460g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Derrick Darby
Topic
Popular Philosophy
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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