Rights Against Humanity
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
4-1976
ISSN
1558-1470
Publisher
Duke University Press
Language
en-US
Abstract
In the beginning (we are told) there were people with rights. These rights concerned life, health, and liberty. People could also create rights, by finding or making things, and could transfer rights to others, by gifts and exchange. These rights determine the limits of morally justifiable conduct: any act that infringes on a right is morally indefensible; any act within the limits of one's rights, and any consequence of exercising them, is morally unobjectionable.
Recommended Citation
David B. Lyons,
Rights Against Humanity
,
in
85
The Philosophical Review
208
(1976).
Available at:
https://doi.org/10.2307/2183731
Comments
Reviewing Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974).