Needs, Rights, and Collective Obligations
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements 80 (57):187- (2005)
| Abstract | In this paper, I argue that a well-known objection to subsistence rights developed by Onora O'Neill - namely, that such rights would generate obligations without an obligation-bearer, can be answered if we take such rights to impose an objection on the wrold's population, taken collectively. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Needs Subsistence Rights Collective Obligations Global Poverty Distributive Justice | |||||||||
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