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| Equal rights: Equal rights are the legal and social rights that are available to all people, regardless of their personal characteristics. They are important for creating a just and equitable society. See also Society, Justice, Equality, Inequlities, Equal oppertunities._____________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 Equal Rights - Dictionary of Arguments
Höffe I 358 Equal Rights/Mill/Höffe: In his third directly political work, The Subjection of Women(1), Mill demands with particular emphasis that the almost despotic power of men over women be broken. Instead of subjecting women in marriage to strict surveillance, they should be granted the same rights and legal protection. Progress: From the result, the eventual equality of women in family and society, he even expects a progress in moral ethics, which would entail nothing less than a "moral regeneration of humanity". Utilitarianism: This motif, the progress of moral ethics, is not a secondary thought for Mill. On the contrary, it connects the writing on the women's issue with the writing "On Liberty", its commitment of citizens to the common good, and, beyond that, with the utilitarian principle of general utility. >Utilitarianism/Mill. VsEqual Rights: (...) Mill deals (...) with two of the counter-arguments widespread at the time, with the alleged natural inferiority of women and with the supposed voluntariness of their subjugation. MillVsVs: a) Mill exposes the first counter-argument as a product of social circumstances - the alleged nature of women is artificially created, the result of forced degradation; b) and to the second counter-argument he counters the already older liberal thesis that being allowed to give up one's freedom does not belong to freedom. 1. J.St. Mill The Subjection of Women, 1869_____________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 Höffe I Otfried Höffe Geschichte des politischen Denkens München 2016 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-29