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- Title
A Theory of the "Rights" Concept.
- Authors
MONTANYE, JAMES A.
- Abstract
This essay examines the evolutionary development of the "rights" concept. It argues that the concept is both relatively recent and fundamentally economic rather than abstractly philosophical. The essay is unique, not only in its explication of the concept, but also in the use of ngram data (i.e., the changing relative frequency of published words and phrases) to visualize the correspondence between the evolving rights concept and growing aggregate prosperity.
- Subjects
HUMAN rights -- Philosophy; EVOLUTIONARY theories; N-gram models (Computational linguistics)
- Publication
Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism, 2015, Vol 23, Issue 1, p65
- ISSN
1522-7340
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1558/eph.v23i1.28988