CONTENTS
1. Introduction = 1
1.1. Rights: The Issue of Sense = 1
1.2. General Aims = 3
1.3. The Importance of Individuals = 7
1.4. Misgivings about Rights = 12
1.5. Natural Law and Natural Rights = 13
1.6. The Principle of Self-Ownership = 17
PART Ⅰ. SELF-OWNERSHIP: THE PROPRIETARY CONCEPTION OF RIGHTS
2. What is Self-Ownership? = 25
2.1. Introduction = 25
2.2. What is Property? = 27
2.3. Full Liberal Ownership = 29
2.4. The Meaning of Self-Ownership = 32
2.5. Must Self-Ownership be Libertarian? = 34
2.6. Self-Ownership: Sources of Scepticism = 38
2.7. Summary = 41
3. Self-Ownership and World Ownership = 43
3.1. Introduction = 43
3.2. Rights to Resources and Varieties of World Ownership = 45
3.3. Locke's Theory of Just Acquisition = 48
3.4. Nozick's Theory of Just Acquisition = 54
3.5. The Steiner Constitution = 59
3.6. Conclusion = 65
4. Proprietary Rights and Self-Command = 66
4.1. Introduction = 66
4.2. A Conjectural History of Proprietary Rights = 67
4.3. The Withering Away of Rights: (ⅰ) Totalitarianism = 72
4.4. The Withering Away of Rights: (ⅱ) Full Compliance = 75
4.5. A Right to Change Society? = 79
4.6. Fixing the System of Freedom and Constraint = 83
PART Ⅱ. SELF-GOVERNMENT: THE POLITICAL CONCEPTION OF RIGHTS
5. The Moral Basis of Rights = 93
5.1. Introduction = 93
5.2. A New Beginning = 95
5.3. Locating the Moral Basis of Rights = 97
3.4. Autonomy = 99
5.5. Autonomy as Personal and Political = 106
5.6. The Interplay of Personal and Political Autonomy = 109
5.7. The Good of Autonomy = 112
5.8. Our Sense of Autonomy = 115
5.9. Conclusion = 116
6. Constructing a Theory of Rights: Ideal Conversations = 118
6.1. Introduction = 118
6.2. Discourse and Contract = 119
6.3. Habermas on Ideal Speech = 124
6.4. Larmore's Neutral justification = 128
6.5. Ackerman's Constrained Conversation = 130
6.6. Political Liberalism = 135
6.7. Summary = 139
7. Constructing a Theory of Rights: Building in Conversational Constraints = 141
7.1. Introduction = 141
7.2. Can Ideal Discourse Bind? = 143
7.3. Autonomy-Regarding Constraints: Personal = 146
7.4. Autonomy-Regarding Constraints: Political = 148
7.5. The Interdependence of Autonomous Human Beings = 152
7.6. Autonomy against Self-Ownership = 157
7.7. From Modus Vivendi Politics to Expressivism = 164
7.8. Summary = 167
8. Principles of Self-Government = 168
8.1. Introduction = 168
8.2. Principles of Self-Government = 171
8.3. Summary = 189
9. Rights as Political = 193
9.1. Introduction = 193
9.2. The Political Understanding of Rights = 193
9.3. Human Rights = 198
9.4. Rights Scepticism = 202
9.5. Talents and Bodily Integrity = 209
9.6. Rights and Solidarity = 212
9.7. Summary = 213
10. Conclusion = 215
10.1. Making Sense of Rights = 215
10.2. Determining What Rights We Have = 216
10.3. Why the Institution of Rights? = 217
10.4. Concluding Remarks = 218
References = 221
Index = 229
