Rights
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Description
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.
Source Publication
The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Political Thought
Source Editors/Authors
David Miller
Publication Date
1987
Recommended Citation
Waldron, Jeremy, "Rights" (1987). Faculty Chapters. 1658.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/1658
