236 | Sound laws achieve the happiness of those who observe them [Plato] |
2828 | Law is intelligence without appetite [Aristotle] |
19896 | It is not a law if not endorsed by the public [Hooker,R] |
7827 | Spinoza wanted democracy based on individual rights, and is thus the first modern political philosopher [Stewart,M on Spinoza] |
19926 | The sovereignty has absolute power over citizens [Spinoza] |
6251 | The loss of perfect rights causes misery, but the loss of imperfect rights reduces social good [Hutcheson] |
21094 | There are two kinds of right - to power, and to property [Hume] |
20570 | There is now a growing universal community, and violations of rights are felt everywhere [Kant] |
20571 | There are political and inter-national rights, but also universal cosmopolitan rights [Kant] |
21003 | Only laws can produce real rights; rights from 'law of nature' are imaginary [Bentham] |
7539 | To get duties from people without rights, you must pay them well [Goethe] |
21781 | The absolute right is the right to have rights [Hegel] |
22783 | Rights imply duties, and duties imply rights [Hegel] |
3775 | A right is a valid claim to society's protection [Mill] |
20519 | Marxists say liberal rights are confrontational, and liberal equality is a sham [Marx, by Wolff,J] |
7173 | Rights arise out of contracts, which need a balance of power [Nietzsche] |
5916 | Rights were originally legal, and broadened to include other things [Ross] |
23751 | Rights are asserted contentiously, and need the backing of force [Weil] |
23752 | Giving centrality to rights stifles all impulses of charity [Weil] |
23835 | People have duties, and only have rights because of the obligations of others to them [Weil] |
21004 | Hart (against Bentham) says human rights are what motivate legal rights [Hart,HLA, by Sen] |
4693 | The right of non-interference (with a 'negative duty'), and the right to goods/services ('positive') [Foot] |
22810 | A right is not just a rule, but also asserts certain ideas of moral worth [Taylor,C] |
22812 | For most people the primacy of rights mainly concerns freedom [Taylor,C] |
3276 | A morality of rights is very minimal, leaving a lot of human life without restrictions or duties [Nagel] |
23568 | If whole states possess rights, there can be social relations between states [Walzer] |
20285 | If a right entails having the relevant desire, many creatures might have no right to life [Singer] |
8031 | Fans of natural rights or laws can't agree on what the actual rights or laws are [MacIntyre] |
21016 | Political and civil rights are not separate from economic and social rights [Nussbaum] |
18652 | The Lockean view of freedom depends on whether you had a right to what is restricted [Kymlicka] |
23379 | Rights are a part of nation-building, to build a common national identity and culture [Kymlicka] |
23382 | Rights derived from group membership are opposed to the idea of state citizenship [Kymlicka] |
5653 | A right is a power which is enforced in the name of justice [Scruton] |
5064 | Rights are moral significance, or liberty, or right not to be restrained, or entitlement [Mawson] |
20513 | If natural rights are axiomatic, there is then no way we can defend them [Wolff,J] |
20512 | Standard rights: life, free speech, assembly, movement, vote, stand (plus shelter, food, health?) [Wolff,J] |
20514 | If rights are natural, rather than inferred, how do we know which rights we have? [Wolff,J] |
20988 | Freedom from torture or terrorist attacks is independent of citizenship [Sen] |
23606 | Liberty Rights are permissions, and Claim Rights are freedom from intervention [McMahan] |
20602 | Some rights are 'claims' that other people should act in a certain way [Tuckness/Wolf] |
20604 | Choice theory says protecting individual autonomy is basic (but needs to cover infants and animals) [Tuckness/Wolf] |
20603 | One theory (fairly utilitarian) says rights protect interests (but it needs to cover trivial interests) [Tuckness/Wolf] |
20607 | Having a right does not entail further rights needed to implement it [Tuckness/Wolf] |