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Single Idea 21781

[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights ]

Full Idea

The absolute right is the right to have rights.

Gist of Idea

The absolute right is the right to have rights

Source

Georg W.F.Hegel (Lectures on the Philosophy of Right [1819], p.127), quoted by Stephen Houlgate - An Introduction to Hegel 08 'Rights'

Book Ref

Houlgate,Stephen: 'An Introduction to Hegel' [Blackwell 2005], p.186

A Reaction

What a beautifully succinct and important idea! Does a foetus, or a dog, or a person in a vegetative state, or a slave, qualify?

Related Idea

Idea 21065 You can't make a contract renouncing your right to make contracts! [Kant]

The 3 ideas from 'Lectures on the Philosophy of Right'

22041 Representatives by region ignores whether they care about the national interest [Hegel, by Pinkard]
21781 The absolute right is the right to have rights [Hegel]
21785 We are only free, with rights, if we claim our freedom, and there are no natural rights [Hegel, by Houlgate]