Rights and Duties, Volume 6Carl Wellman This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality. |
Contents
On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion | 31 |
The Rights of Animals and Unborn Generations | 51 |
Potentiality in the Abortion Discussion | 77 |
a TestCase for Theories of Right | 95 |
Animal Rights | 108 |
Moral Rights and Animals | 127 |
The Rights of Past and Future Persons | 159 |
Justice and Equality | 172 |
Individuals Groups and Rights to Public Goods | 237 |
DutyBearers | 264 |
Collective Actions and Secondary Actions | 289 |
Are Animals Moral Beings? | 309 |
Ascriptions of Responsibility | 335 |
Moral Agency Individual Responsibility and Human Psychology | 349 |
Kant on Duties Regarding Nonrational Nature | 377 |
Acknowledgments | 395 |
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