Persons, Rights, and the Moral Community

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Praise for
PERSONS, RIGHTS, AND THE MORAL COMMUNITY
"Loren E. Lomasky's profound, arresting and radically original book challenges our belief that rights theory can be no more than a sophisticated restatement of fashionable liberal prejudice. In a brilliant exploration of the morality of individualism, Lomasky applies a fresh and ^drastic turn of mind to the derivation of basic rights and thereby contests some of the most deeply entrenched suppositions of moral and political
philosophy____His argument is the best we have in defence of basic
rights."
Times Literary Supplement
"An important event in the philosophical development of classical liberal
theory____Readable, entertaining, and far too full of moral truths to be
confined to the artificial world of the academic." Brick Mack in
Reason
"His style is engaging, accessible, and often vivid____Quite the most
valuable feature of this book is that, in place of Nozick's parenthetical questions and undefended assumptions,... Tovább

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Praise for
PERSONS, RIGHTS, AND THE MORAL COMMUNITY
"Loren E. Lomasky's profound, arresting and radically original book challenges our belief that rights theory can be no more than a sophisticated restatement of fashionable liberal prejudice. In a brilliant exploration of the morality of individualism, Lomasky applies a fresh and ^drastic turn of mind to the derivation of basic rights and thereby contests some of the most deeply entrenched suppositions of moral and political
philosophy____His argument is the best we have in defence of basic
rights."
Times Literary Supplement
"An important event in the philosophical development of classical liberal
theory____Readable, entertaining, and far too full of moral truths to be
confined to the artificial world of the academic." Brick Mack in
Reason
"His style is engaging, accessible, and often vivid____Quite the most
valuable feature of this book is that, in place of Nozick's parenthetical questions and undefended assumptions, it actually sets out to make a systematic case in favor of a Ubertarian rights theory." Ethics
"Clear, careful, and well structured, with occasional wit and even passion. Lomasky's arguments are original and important. His book is the only convincing defense, that I know of, of the moderate libertarianism which so often lies undefended and even unexpressed behind contemporary philosophical arguments in apphed ethics, political, and legal philosophy. The book promises to inspire other fruitful efforts to advance beyond the shaky starting point of most traditional rights theories."
John Simmons, University of Virginia
Loren E. Lomasky is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Vissza