Wrongs and Rights Come Apart by Cornell, Nicolas

Wrongs and Rights Come Apart

A bold challenge to a central assumption in modern moral and legal thinking, showing that wrongs and...
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Author: Nicolas Cornell
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Language: English
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Wrongs and Rights Come Apart by Cornell, Nicolas

Wrongs and Rights Come Apart

Dhs. 332.40

Wrongs and Rights Come Apart

Dhs. 332.40
Author: Nicolas Cornell
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

A bold challenge to a central assumption in modern moral and legal thinking, showing that wrongs and rights are not flip sides of the same coin but instead represent fundamentally distinct moral phenomena.

It is commonplace to regard rights and wrongs as mirror images of each other: to be wronged, we think, is to have one's rights violated. According to this familiar picture of the moral landscape, there is an inescapable relationship between our claims on others and our complaints against them. Indeed, if to have a right means just that one can reasonably claim redress for being wronged, then there is really nothing separating wrongs and rights.

Legal scholar and philosopher Nicolas Cornell rejects this view. He argues that although wrongs and rights often correspond and overlap, they diverge systematically in a range of contexts and play substantively different roles in our lives. Wrongs are not merely the outline left where rights have been taken away, and rights are more than just the glimmer of future liability.

To make its case, Wrongs and Rights Come Apart engages a variety of examples from literature, legal cases, moral philosophy, and contemporary culture. In accessible, lively prose, Cornell explores topics such as illicit promises, forgiveness, animal rights, and economic exploitation. It turns out that potential wrongs--unlike rights--do not determine how we ought to conduct ourselves. And crucially, rights--unlike wrongs--do not tell us what corrective action is appropriate after a violation. Only by seeing rights and wrongs as distinct concepts, Cornell concludes, can we do justice to the richness of our interpersonal obligations.

Author: Nicolas Cornell
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 03/04/2025
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.13w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780674244979

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