RT Article
T1 Rethinking Rights, Preserving Community: How My Mind Has Changed
JF Journal of religious ethics
VO 25
IS 1
SP 3
OP 14
A1 Dyck, Arthur J.
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 1997
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/182238317X
AB Just below the surface of public life in the United States, a biblically based theory of rights vies with a theory that first appeared in the work of Bentham and Mill, and the latter is gaining increasing dominance. The resolution of this conflict has implications for a host of legal matters and public policy decisions, including life and death issues like physician-assisted suicide. Though the ascendancy of the Millian tradition reflects widespread skepticism concerning the possibility of developing a basis for a common morality or defending a conception of natural inalienable rights, the author argues that a plausible account of common human morality can be developed from attention to the relationships that are requisite for sustaining the communities that are the condition of moral agency.