Rights

Rights

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The term is used in three main ways in political philosophy: (1) to describe a type of institutional arrangement in which interests are guaranteed legal protection, choices are guaranteed legal effect or good and opportunities are provided to individuals on a guaranteed basis. (2) to express the justified demand that such institutional arrangements should be set up, maintained and respected. (3) to characterize a particular sort of justification for this demand, viz. a fundamental moral principle that accords importance to certain basic individual values such as equality, autonomy, or moral agency.

First Page

443

Source Publication

The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Political Thought

Source Editors/Authors

David Miller

Publication Date

1987

Publisher

B. Blackwell

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