Human Rights, Ownership, and the Individual

Is it defensible to use the concept of a right? Can we justify rights'' central place in modern moral and legal thinking, or does the concept unjustifiably side-line those who do not qualify as right-holders? Rowan Cruft develops a new account of rights. Moving beyond the traditional ''interest theory'' and ''will theory'', he defends a distinctive ''addressive'' approach that brings together duty...