Are There Inalienable Rights?

Philosophy 64 (250):519 - 524 (1989)
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Abstract

In the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights a quite large number of things are said to be ‘human rights’ and though in that Declaration the term ‘inalienable’ is not used to describe the rights in question it has been so used by commentators—at least with respect to some of the rights enumerated. I shall forgo asking the prior question as to whether any such thing as a human right exists and ask simply whether any such thing as an inalienable right exists. My intention will be to show that it does not.

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Inalienable Rights.Frank J. Leavitt - 1992 - Philosophy 67 (259):115 - 118.

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