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Oedipus at Fenway Park

What Rights Are and Why There are Any

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HARDCOVER

$75.00 • £65.95 • €68.95

ISBN 9780674630925

Publication Date: 08/05/1998

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232 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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A splendid contribution to an important philosophical debate…stimulating, challenging, and, to be sure, instructive.—Robert P. George, Princeton University

Weinreb sees both the nature and the content of rights arising from and being grounded on responsibility. Although others have suggested from time to time that there is some connection between responsibility and rights, no one to my knowledge has imagined that the relationship is so complete and illuminating as Weinreb proposes. This is a highly original theory of rights.—Carl Wellman, Washington University in St. Louis

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