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| Rights: Rights in a society are the fundamental freedoms and entitlements that belong to every person, regardless of their race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status. They are essential for human dignity and they enable people to live freely and participate in society. See also Human rights, Fundamental rights, Society, Justice, Jurisdiction, Law, Laws, Justice, Participation._____________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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Michael Tooley on Rights - Dictionary of Arguments
Singer I 81 Rights/Tooley/Peter Singer: (M. Tooley 1973(1)): generally, we assume that rights are something that can be infringed and that an infringement of rights violates the wishes of an individual. So if you do not care if I take your car, I will not violate your rights by taking it. I 82 VsTooley: this brings problems, e.g. in connection with the temporary loss of consciousness, Tooley admits this. >Rights, >Consciousness. 1. M. Tooley, Abortion and Infanticide in The Problem of Abortion, Belmont, 1973, p. 60._____________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. |
Tooley I M. Tooley Time, Tense, And Causation Oxford 2000 SingerP I Peter Singer Practical Ethics (Third Edition) Cambridge 2011 SingerP II P. Singer The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically. New Haven 2015 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-19