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- Title
The Reciprocity Theory of Rights.
- Authors
Rodin, David
- Abstract
This article provides an explanatory account of a central class of moral rights; their normative grounding, the conditions for their possession and forfeiture, and their moral stringency. It argues that interpersonal rights against harm and rights to assistance are best understood as arising from reciprocity relations between moral agents. The account has significant advantages compared with rivals such as the interest theory of rights. By explaining the differential enforceability of rights against harm and rights to assistance, the reciprocity theory helps to refute an argument made by Cecile Fabre that the poor may have a justification for engaging in war against the affluent to compel them to fulfil their duties of assistance to the poor.
- Subjects
RECIPROCITY (Psychology); MORAL agent (Philosophy); LEGAL rights; HARM (Ethics); JUST war doctrine &; ethics; FABRE, Cecile; SELF-defense; RAZ, Joseph; ETHICS; POLITICAL attitudes
- Publication
Law & Philosophy, 2014, Vol 33, Issue 3, p281
- ISSN
0167-5249
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1007/s10982-013-9201-6