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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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John Stuart Mill on Rights - Dictionary of Arguments
Gaus I 109 Rights/Mill/Gaus: In On Liberty J. S. Mill advances his ‘one very simple principle - that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number - is to prevent harm to others’ (1963a(1): ch. 1, para. 9). Mill advances a radical liberal theory of political right: coercion - which includes social pressure intended to discourage any act A - must be justified on the grounds that A constitutes a harm to others, and the coercion is intended to prevent that harm (...). A good deal of recent liberal theory has been devoted to explicating this harm principle, and whether it really can serve as the sole ground for justified coercion. >Rights/Liberalism. 1. Mill, John Stuart (1963a) On Liberty. In J. M. Robson, ed., The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, vol. XVIII, 213–301. ch. 1, para. 9. Gaus, Gerald F. 2004. „The Diversity of Comprehensive Liberalisms.“ In: Gaus, Gerald F. & Kukathas, Chandran 2004. Handbook of Political Theory. SAGE Publications. - - - Höffe I 350 Rights/Mill/Höffe: [Mill] then recognizes the traditional distinction between perfect (justice) and imperfect (charity) duties. Finally, he claims that having a right means having something that society should protect for no other reason than general utility(1). >Utilitarianism/Mill. 1. J.St. Mill, Utilitarianism 1861_____________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. |
Mill I John St. Mill A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, London 1843 German Edition: Von Namen, aus: A System of Logic, London 1843 In Eigennamen, Ursula Wolf, Frankfurt/M. 1993 Mill II J. St. Mill Utilitarianism: 1st (First) Edition Oxford 1998 Gaus I Gerald F. Gaus Chandran Kukathas Handbook of Political Theory London 2004 Höffe I Otfried Höffe Geschichte des politischen Denkens München 2016 |
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