Rights Revisited
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1993
Editor(s)
Yeager Hudson & Creighton Peden
ISBN
077349264X
Publisher
Mellen Press
Language
en-US
Abstract
In view of the occasion, I begin by noting difficulties that legal theorists have reconciling constitutional rights with democracy. I then contrast those difficulties with the problem of reconciling moral rights with utilitarianism. After reviewing the arguments, which seem inconclusive, I advance the tentative suggestion that we have more reason for confidence in rights than in thinking that a utilitarian theory can accommodate them.
Recommended Citation
David B. Lyons,
Rights Revisited
,
in
The Bill of RIghts: Bicentennial Reflections
21
(Yeager Hudson & Creighton Peden ed.,
1993).
Available at:
https://doi.org/10.5840/socphiltoday1993832
Comments
This chapter is in volume 8 of the Social Philosophy Today series. This book was translated into Spanish and published as Aspectos Morales de la Teoria del Derecho: Ensayos Sobre la Ley, la Justicia y la Responsabilidad Politica (1998).