The Lockean Theory of Rights

A. John Simmons

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9780691221311
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy

John Locke's political theory has been the subject of many detailed treatments by philosophers and political scientists. But The Lockean Theory of Rights is the first systematic, full-length study of Locke's theory of rights and of its potential for making genuine contributions to contemporary debates about rights and their place in political philosophy. Given that the rights of persons are the central moral concept at work in Locke's and Lockean political philosophy, such a study is long overdue.

INDEX

Aaron, Richard, 18n, 19n, 56n

Abrams, Philip, 55n

absolute authority (right), 172, 172n, 178, 197n, 216, 216n, 224n, 230, 230n, 233n, 261–63n, 332. See also despotical rights

absoluteness of rights, 93–94, 94n, 94–95n, 111–12, 324, 324n

alienation of rights, 122–24, 164n, 178–79, 179n, 204–11, 211n, 225, 229–32, 230n, 232n, 261, 261–63n, 268, 279n, 311–13, 321–22. See also inalienability; transfers

Altham, J.E.J., 139n, 160n

anarchism, 163n, 165–66

Andrew, Edward, 77n, 119n, 269n, 313n, 328n, 353n

animals, 193–95, 197n, 203–4n, 236–37, 239, 262

Aquinas, Thomas, 96, 96n, 99, 177, 187, 188n

archetype, 20, 25n

Aristotle, 180, 188n

Arnold, Christopher, 117n

Arthur, John, 280n, 294n

artificial power, 90, 123–24, 129–30, 130n, 167, 173–74

Ashcraft, Richard, 9, 9n, 11, 19n, 65n, 66n, 75n, 76n, 77n, 79n, 85–86n, 127–28, 177n, 208n, 225n, 226n, 233n, 236n, 245n, 246n, 253n, 260n, 272n, 278n, 317n, 328n, 334n

atheism, 39, 39n

authority. See absolute authority; authority to punish; right of creation

authority to punish, 122–24, 142–48

Baier, Annette, 25n

Beccaria, Cesare, 139n

Becker, Lawrence, 70n, 81n, 83n, 89n, 92n, 169n, 171n, 183n, 187n, 191n, 1...