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Single Idea 2828
[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights
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Full Idea
Law is intelligence without appetite.
Gist of Idea
Law is intelligence without appetite
Source
Aristotle (Politics [c.332 BCE], 1287a31)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Politics', ed/tr. Sinclair,T.A. /Saunders,T. [Penguin 1992], p.226
A Reaction
Neat, but no laws would be needed if there were no appetites. The idea has a nice Kantian feeling to it, though - of rising into the space of pure reason.
The
43 ideas
with the same theme
[what can justify giving or withholding rights]:
236
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Sound laws achieve the happiness of those who observe them
[Plato]
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2828
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Law is intelligence without appetite
[Aristotle]
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19896
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It is not a law if not endorsed by the public
[Hooker,R]
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7827
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Spinoza wanted democracy based on individual rights, and is thus the first modern political philosopher
[Stewart,M on Spinoza]
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19926
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The sovereignty has absolute power over citizens
[Spinoza]
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6251
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The loss of perfect rights causes misery, but the loss of imperfect rights reduces social good
[Hutcheson]
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21094
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There are two kinds of right - to power, and to property
[Hume]
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20570
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There is now a growing universal community, and violations of rights are felt everywhere
[Kant]
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20571
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There are political and inter-national rights, but also universal cosmopolitan rights
[Kant]
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21003
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Only laws can produce real rights; rights from 'law of nature' are imaginary
[Bentham]
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7539
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To get duties from people without rights, you must pay them well
[Goethe]
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21781
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The absolute right is the right to have rights
[Hegel]
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22783
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Rights imply duties, and duties imply rights
[Hegel]
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3775
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A right is a valid claim to society's protection
[Mill]
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20519
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Marxists say liberal rights are confrontational, and liberal equality is a sham
[Marx, by Wolff,J]
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7173
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Rights arise out of contracts, which need a balance of power
[Nietzsche]
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5916
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Rights were originally legal, and broadened to include other things
[Ross]
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23751
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Rights are asserted contentiously, and need the backing of force
[Weil]
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23752
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Giving centrality to rights stifles all impulses of charity
[Weil]
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23835
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People have duties, and only have rights because of the obligations of others to them
[Weil]
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21004
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Hart (against Bentham) says human rights are what motivate legal rights
[Hart,HLA, by Sen]
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4693
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The right of non-interference (with a 'negative duty'), and the right to goods/services ('positive')
[Foot]
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22810
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A right is not just a rule, but also asserts certain ideas of moral worth
[Taylor,C]
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22812
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For most people the primacy of rights mainly concerns freedom
[Taylor,C]
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3276
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A morality of rights is very minimal, leaving a lot of human life without restrictions or duties
[Nagel]
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23568
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If whole states possess rights, there can be social relations between states
[Walzer]
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20285
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If a right entails having the relevant desire, many creatures might have no right to life
[Singer]
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8031
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Fans of natural rights or laws can't agree on what the actual rights or laws are
[MacIntyre]
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21016
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Political and civil rights are not separate from economic and social rights
[Nussbaum]
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18652
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The Lockean view of freedom depends on whether you had a right to what is restricted
[Kymlicka]
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23379
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Rights are a part of nation-building, to build a common national identity and culture
[Kymlicka]
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23382
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Rights derived from group membership are opposed to the idea of state citizenship
[Kymlicka]
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5653
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A right is a power which is enforced in the name of justice
[Scruton]
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5064
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Rights are moral significance, or liberty, or right not to be restrained, or entitlement
[Mawson]
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20512
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Standard rights: life, free speech, assembly, movement, vote, stand (plus shelter, food, health?)
[Wolff,J]
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20513
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If natural rights are axiomatic, there is then no way we can defend them
[Wolff,J]
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20514
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If rights are natural, rather than inferred, how do we know which rights we have?
[Wolff,J]
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20988
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Freedom from torture or terrorist attacks is independent of citizenship
[Sen]
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23606
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Liberty Rights are permissions, and Claim Rights are freedom from intervention
[McMahan]
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20602
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Some rights are 'claims' that other people should act in a certain way
[Tuckness/Wolf]
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20604
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Choice theory says protecting individual autonomy is basic (but needs to cover infants and animals)
[Tuckness/Wolf]
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20603
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One theory (fairly utilitarian) says rights protect interests (but it needs to cover trivial interests)
[Tuckness/Wolf]
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20607
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Having a right does not entail further rights needed to implement it
[Tuckness/Wolf]
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