Rethinking Rights, Preserving Community: How My Mind Has Changed
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 pub...
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Type de support: | Électronique Article |
Langue: | Anglais |
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Wiley-Blackwell
1997
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Journal of religious ethics
Année: 1997, Volume: 25, Numéro: 1, Pages: 3-14 |
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Édition parallèle: | Non-électronique
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Résumé: | 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. |
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ISSN: | 1467-9795 |
Contient: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
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