Rights from wrongs : a secular theory of the origins of rights / Alan Dershowitz.
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New York :
Basic Books,
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : where do rights come from?
- I : THE SOURCES OF RIGHTS: What are rights?
- Is God the source of rights?
- Is Nature the source of rights?
- Are there other "external" sources of rights?
- Do constitutional democracies really need an external theory of rights?
- Do we need to invent an external source of rights--even if it does not really exist?
- Is natural law a helpful or harmful fiction?
- What, then, is the source of rights?
- II : SOME CHALLENGES TO EXPERIENCE AS THE SOURCE OF RIGHTS: Is there always a right answer?
- If rights do not come from God or Nature, how are they different from mere preferences?
- Does the experiential approach confuse philosophy with sociology?
- Can rights produce wrongs?
- Is the debate over external sources of rights a liberal-conservative issue?
- III : APPLYING THE EXPERIENTIAL THEORY OF RIGHTS TO SPECTIFIC CONTROVERSIES: Can experiential rights check the abuses of majority rule?
- Is there a right "to life"?
- Is there a right not to be censored by government?
- Is there a right to have church and state separated?
- Is there a right to emigrate and/or immigrate?
- Do animals have rights?
- Do dead people have rights in their organs?
- Conclusion : the future of rights.