TitleRights and Reason [electronic resource] : Essays in Honor of Carl Wellman / edited by Marilyn Friedman, Larry May, Kate Parsons, Jennifer Stiff
ImprintDordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2000
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9403-5
Descript V, 277 p. 1 illus. online resource

SUMMARY

The papers in this book have been collected in celebration of Carl Wellman, who, after forty-five years, is retiring from teaching. Here I would like to highlight a few of the moments which have shaped Carl as a person and a philosopher. Although his childhood was not unhappy, Carl faced considerable challenges growing up in Manchester, New Hampshire. He ne ver knew his father; he and his mother, Carolyn, had little money; and he fought a long battle with Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, an illness which made hirn more familiar with hospitals than any young person should be. (His mother once told me that there were times when the doctors put Carl in his own hospital room because, while he was too young to be housed with adult men, they did not want the other children to see hirn die. ) Following a year of physician-prescribed rest after high school, the doctors recommended the University of Arizona in the misguided hope that the desert climate might improve his health. In spite of the doctors' hopes, life in Tucson was not easy. The heat takes its toll on everyone, but the desert was especially oppressive for Carl since his unusually sensitive eyes were no match for the intense sun. Still, Carl enjoyed college


CONTENT

1. Introduction -- 2. Criteria and the Egocentric Predicament Revisited -- 3. Rights, Interests, and Free Speech -- 4. Votes as Powers -- 5. Rights and the Presumption of Care -- 6. On the Universality of Moral Justification -- 7. Rights in Conflict -- 8. Human Rights and Wrongs -- 9. Wrongs and Duties -- 10. Cultural Diversity: Rights, Goals, and Competing Values -- 11. Right-Based Moralities -- 12. The Essential Indeterminacy of Rawlsโs Difference Principle -- 13. Justice and Personal Desert -- 14. In Defence of Psychology -- 15. Religion and Right in Marx -- 16. Name Index


SUBJECT

  1. Philosophy
  2. Political science
  3. Political philosophy
  4. Law -- Philosophy
  5. Law
  6. Public international law
  7. Philosophy
  8. Philosophy of Law
  9. Political Philosophy
  10. Public International Law
  11. Philosophy
  12. general
  13. Theories of Law
  14. Philosophy of Law
  15. Legal History