Rights

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2008)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Rights dominate most modern understandings of what actions are proper and which institutions are just. Rights structure the forms of our governments, the contents of our laws, and the shape of morality as we perceive it. To accept a set of rights is to approve a distribution of freedom and authority, and so to endorse a certain view of what may, must, and must not be done.

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 101,854

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Rights-based rights.Diana T. Meyers - 1984 - Law and Philosophy 3 (3):407 - 421.
Human Rights.Ovadia Ezra - 2003 - Social Philosophy Today 19:217-235.
Children's rights.David Archard - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Rights and Human Rights.Oswald Hanfling - 2006 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 58:57-94.
Rights.Jeremy Waldron - 1996 - In Robert E. Goodin, Philip Pettit & Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge (eds.), A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 745–754.
Rights: Foundations, contents, hierarchy.John Edwards - 2006 - Res Publica 12 (3):277-293.
The Justification of Rights.Susan Nannette Daniel - 1994 - Dissertation, University of Kansas

Analytics

Added to PP
2009-01-28

Downloads
149 (#153,287)

6 months
19 (#157,526)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Leif Wenar
King's College London

References found in this work

A Theory of Justice.John Rawls - 1971 - Oxford,: Harvard University Press. Edited by Steven M. Cahn.
Utilitarianism.John Stuart Mill - 1861 - Cleveland: Oxford University Press UK. Edited by Roger Crisp.
The Concept of Law.Hla Hart - 1961 - Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press UK.
Practical reason and norms.Joseph Raz - 1975 - London: Hutchinson.
Natural Law and Natural Rights.John Finnis - 1979 - New York: Oxford University Press UK.

View all 93 references / Add more references