Stability, natural rights, and the limits of prudence

This essay investigates Prof. Nigel Biggar’s critique of natural rights and his subsequent reliance upon “prudence” to secure positive rights for citizens. It offers a modest defense of natural rights as explanatory for certain intuitions, while raising questions about whether positive rights are su...

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Main Author: Anderson, Matthew Lee (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: SAGE Publishing 2021
In: Anglican theological review
Year: 2021, Volume: 103, Issue: 4, Pages: 402-408
Further subjects:B Karl Barth
B positive rights
B Political Theology
B Nigel Biggar
B natural rights
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Summary:This essay investigates Prof. Nigel Biggar’s critique of natural rights and his subsequent reliance upon “prudence” to secure positive rights for citizens. It offers a modest defense of natural rights as explanatory for certain intuitions, while raising questions about whether positive rights are sufficiently stable on Prof. Biggar’s view.
ISSN:2163-6214
Contains:Enthalten in: Anglican theological review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/00033286211028793