Gewirth, Alan

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Alan Gewirth (1912-2004) Alan Gewirth was an American philosopher, famous for his argument that universal human rights can be rationally justified as the outcome of claims necessarily made by rational agents. According to this argument, first outlined in Reason and Morality (1978), all agents necessarily want to be successful in their actions, and since freedom … Continue reading Gewirth, Alan →

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The Community of Rights By Gewirth Alan University of Chicago, 1996, 380pp.,£ 31.95. [REVIEW]Susan Mendus - 1997 - Philosophy 72 (282):609-.
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