Rights and Recognition
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2006
ISSN
0037-802X
Publisher
Florida State University Department of Philosophy
Language
en-US
Abstract
Political developments in the eighteenth century, especially the revolutions in America and France, challenged prevailing social arrangements as violations of natural or (as we mainly now refer to them) human rights. Since then, the idea of a human right has been subjected to skeptical attack, which has sometimes been directed at the more general idea of a moral right. That the critical onslaught should target all moral rights is both natural and remarkable. It is natural because human rights are best understood as a subset of moral rights (human rights are moral rights that are unconditionally universal and especially important). The onslaught is nonetheless remarkable, however, because it generally ignores obvious and commonplace connections.
Recommended Citation
David B. Lyons,
Rights and Recognition
,
in
32
Social Theory and Practice
1
(2006).
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