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| Rights: Rights in a society are the fundamental freedoms and entitlements that belong to every person, regardless of their race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status. They are essential for human dignity and they enable people to live freely and participate in society. See also Human rights, Fundamental rights, Society, Justice, Jurisdiction, Law, Laws, Justice, Participation._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Hillel Steiner on Rights - Dictionary of Arguments
Gaus I 127 Rights/Hillel Steiner/Gaus/Mack: Steiner(1) claims that his account of liberty as property rights has a virtue lacking in competing theories of rights: compossibility. If rights are defined in terms of intentional actions - e.g. I have a right to see a film tomorrow and you have a right to wreck a building tomorrow - they can conflict: „Whether my seeing a film tomorrow afternoon, and your wrecking a building then, are or are not jointly performable actions depends inter alia on whether the building you are to wreck is the cinema I'm to attend. If and only if we each have a duty to do these actions, those two duties are incompossible and so are the respective rights which they correlatively entail.“(1994(1):91—2) Gaus: Steiner thus argues that a system of rights can be guaranteed to be compossible - the performance of all the correlative duties are necessarily jointly possible - only if rights are defined in terms of property over a 'set of extensional elements' (control over objects, locations in time and so on). >Freedom/Hillel Steiner, >Justice/Hillel Steiner. 1. Steiner, Hillel (1994) An Essay on Rights. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. Mack, Eric and Gaus, Gerald F. 2004. „Classical Liberalism and Libertarianism: The Liberty Tradition.“ In: Gaus, Gerald F. & Kukathas, Chandran 2004. Handbook of Political Theory. SAGE Publications._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Steiner, Hillel Gaus I Gerald F. Gaus Chandran Kukathas Handbook of Political Theory London 2004 |
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