RT Article
T1 Rights, Obligations, Priorities
JF Studies in Christian ethics
VO 23
IS 2
SP 163
OP 171
A1 O'Neill, Onora 1941-
LA English
YR 2010
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1776583353
AB In Justice: Rights and Wrongs Nicholas Wolterstorff argues for the priority of rights over obligations, and suggests that assigning priority to obligations will take too little account of the wrongs suffered by many types of victim. In this comment on the book I suggest various reasons for assigning priority to obligations, emphasise the importance of offering an account of imperfect as well as perfect obligations, and question the reading of Immanuel Kant’s Groundwork on which some of Wolterstorff’s arguments against the priority of obligations rely.
K1 Rights
K1 Obligations
K1 Kant
K1 impaired agency
K1 Agents
DO 10.1177/0953946809359468