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25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights

21781	The absolute right is the right to have rights [Hegel]
	Full Idea: The absolute right is the right to have rights.
	From: Georg W.F.Hegel (Lectures on the Philosophy of Right [1819], p.127), quoted by Stephen Houlgate - An Introduction to Hegel 08 'Rights'
	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?