What Are Freedoms For?
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- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
- Publish date: 01/01/1997
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What Are Freedoms For? casts doubt on the idea that freedoms are bilateral rights that allow us to make contradictory choices: to speak or to remain silent, to believe in God or to disbelieve, to abort or to give birth to a child. Garvey argues that the goodness of childbearing does not entail the goodness of abortion; and if freedom follows from the good, then freedom to do the first does not entail the freedom to do the second. Each action must have its own justification. Garvey holds that if the law is to protect freedoms, it is permissible -- indeed it is necessary -- to make judgments about the goodness and badness of actions.
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The author's keen insights into important rights issues, communicated with verve and a variety of both real and hypothetical cases, will be of interest to all who care about the meaning of freedoms.
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