{"product_id":"whats-wrong-with-rights-9780198861973","title":"What's Wrong with Rights?","description":"\u003cp\u003eAre natural rights nonsense on stilts  as Jeremy Bentham memorably put it? Must the very notion of a right be individualistic  subverting the common good? Should the right against torture be absolute  even though the heavens fall? Are human rights universal or merely expressions of Western neo-imperial arrogance? Are rights ethically fundamental  proudly impervious to changing circumstances? Should judges strive to extend the reach of rights from civil Hamburg to anarchical Basra? Should judicial oligarchies  rather than legislatures  decide controversial ethical issues by inventing novel rights? Ought human rights advocates learn greater sympathy for the dilemmas facing those burdened with government?  These are the questions that iWhats Wrong with Rights?\/i addresses. In doing so  it draws upon resources in intellectual history  legal philosophy  moral philosophy  moral theology  human rights literature  and the judgments of courts. It ranges from debates about property in medieval Christendom  through Confucian rights-scepticism  to contemporary discussions about the remedy for global hunger and the justification of killing. And it straddles assisted dying in Canada  the military occupation of Iraq  and genocide in Rwanda.  iWhats Wrong with Rights?\/i concludes that much contemporary rights-talk obscures the importance of fostering civic virtue  corrodes military effectiveness  subverts the democratic legitimacy of law  proliferates publicly onerous rights  and undermines their authority and credibility. The solution to these problems lies in the abandonment of rights-fundamentalism and the recovery of a richer public discourse about ethics  one that includes talk about the duty and virtue of rights-holders.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666109161525,"sku":"ByrdShop_0198861974","price":83.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780198861973.jpg?v=1782419966","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/whats-wrong-with-rights-9780198861973","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}