Thomas E. Schneider – författare
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
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James Fitzjames Stephen (1829-1894) is remembered as a judge, legal historian, and the author of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, a reply to J. S. Mill's late works. He is less well remembered for his journalism, though it earned him a reputation among his contemporaries as one of the most trenchant writers on topics ranging across the social, religious, political, moral, and philosophical questions debated in his time. It was largely in his journalistic writing that Stephen set forth his views on these questions. Despite such a reputation, however, only a small proportion of this writing was collected during his lifetime, and very little has been republished since his death.Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen: On Society, Religion, and Government includes thirty-five essays expressing Stephen's views on the questions of his day, which have not lost their interest in ours. He wrote at a time when much of the finest writing in English was published in periodicals, often anonymously. The essays in this volume are drawn mostly from Stephen's unsigned contributions to the Saturday Review, with additions, both signed and unsigned, from other periodicals, extending from the 1850s to the 1880s.
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
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Häftad, Engelska, 2015
132 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2026
304 kr
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Thomas Schneider asserts that rights are strange. Has the notion of what a right is ever been fully explained? He adds that a paradox is wrapped in Americans’ general familiarity with the term: The only way rights can be enforced is by the authority they are also meant to limit. The idea that individuals have protection from authority in the form of a right presupposes some degree of self-government on the part of citizens, a presupposition that makes rights inherently political. In a compact assessment of the “strangeness of rights,” Schneider explores the relationship between justice and self-interest. He concludes that “rights have increased the danger of confusion that arises from justice itself.” The danger of confusing the two was a real concern for the framers of the Constitution, who desired to correct the preoccupation with rights rampant among their fellow patriots. The prominence of rights in the American political tradition has cultivated an awareness of being wronged over the possibility of doing wrong, and Schneider raises the question of whether the manner in which we think of rights is in conflict with the aspiration toward self-government.