The value view -- The value view, the basics -- The components of a claim -- In defense of the value view -- The agency view -- The agency view, the basics -- The components of owing: exclusionary reasons and relationality -- How agency generates rights -- The strength of claims (and rights) -- The moral significance of rights -- Losing rights -- Exercise-based rights -- Exercise-based rights, the very idea -- Exercise-based rights, why accept them?
Summary:
"The aim of the book is to explore, and to some extent defend, an account of moral rights that retreats from Vlastos' firm stand, abandoning the idea that such rights belong to us simply as members of the moral community--though I have doubts about how far we need retreat. Hence my aim is not to defend the existence of moral rights in the first place, but rather to explore how they should best be understood--though I will have a good deal to say about why such rights exist, if they do indeed exist." -- Preface.
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