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People hoard food, arm themselves, and lock out their neighbors. Over his career, rachels wrote 5 books and 85 essays, edited 7 books and gave about 275 professional lectures. The philosophy of right as it is usually called begins with a discussion of the concept of the free will and argues that the free will can only realize itself in the complicated social context of property rights and relations, contracts, moral commitments, family life, the economy, the legal system, and the polity. The elements of moral philosophy rachels, james rachels.
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