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The Proliferation Of Rights: Moral Progress Or Empty Rhetoric?
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The Proliferation Of Rights: Moral Progress Or Empty Rhetoric? Hardcover - 1999

by Wellman, Carl

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Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1999. Scholarly text explores how the assertion of rights has expanded dramatically since World War II, and presents the historical developments in each of the major categories of rights, including human rights, civil rights, women's rights, patient rights, and animal rights. Text assesses where the proliferation has been legitimate and helpful, cases where it has been illusory and unproductive, and alternatives to the appeal to rights. 191 pgs. Dustjacket in mylar.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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  • Title The Proliferation Of Rights: Moral Progress Or Empty Rhetoric?
  • Author Wellman, Carl
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 200
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Westview Press, Boulder, CO.
  • Date 1999
  • Bookseller's Inventory # PI-42
  • ISBN 9780813328201 / 0813328209
  • Reading level 1480
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98028117
  • Dewey Decimal Code 340.112

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About the author

Carl Wellman is Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities at Washington University of St. Louis. He teaches and does research in ethics and philosophy of law. His current philosophical investigations are in general theory of rights, both legal and moral. Previous books include The Language of Ethics, Challenge and Response, Welfare Rights, A Theory of Rights, and An Approach to Rights.

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