Joel Feinberg – The Nature and Value Rights
February 26, 2010
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Tags: nature, rights, value
Quote: “Indeed respect for persons may simply be respect for their rights, so that there cannot be the one without the other; and what is called “human dignity” may simply be the recognizable capacity to assert claims.”
What I expect to learn: I expect to learn why rights is necessary to become moral.
Review:
Every person has different rights and they use it to fight unjust or unfair acts, but what will happen if those rights are taken away from you? Let us talk about Nowhereville, a place wherein you can put every philosophical principle, but they have no rights. They have duty, but they don’t know what rights is all about. Duty is it merely owing something or their due to someone, but it is in correlation with right. But what if there is no right? Can the person claim that someone owes him something? What is right in the first place? Right is something that is claimed or recognizing something. Going back to the last question, can the person claim that someone owes him when there is no right? My answer is that, since there is no right, there is nothing that binds him with the agreement, even when the debtor thinks that he owes the creditor something. Right comes in when he claims that someone owes him, because it is his right, and therefore it is the duty of the person to return what he gets. From there the duty is an action and right is the privilege given in a person which is bounded to duty. If there is no right, there is nothing that will guide the person for the claim that he has. Right is something that gives power to the people to fight for unjust and unfair treatment to people. It gives people the responsibility to do their obligation to other people.
What I learned:
- Value of rights
- Why rights is important
- How is rights related to morality
Integrative Questions:
- What is rights?
- Why is it important to people?
- How is it related to morality?
- Why is rights necessary to morality?
- What is the difference of rights from duty?
Entry Filed under: Contemporary Moral Problems
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