Difference between revisions of "What Are Rights?"
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== Natural Rights == | == Natural Rights == | ||
| + | Let's get [[Natural Rights]] out of the way first. Natural rights are exactly as knowable as invisible pink unicorns: anybody can fantasize them any way they want. During the Enlightenment, when liberalism was invented, liberal natural rights were a propaganda tool used to undermine the equally fictitious natural rights of kings. But even among liberals there was no agreement about whether slaveholding was a natural right or not, because natural rights are really just words. Bentham famously dismissed the idea of natural rights as "nonsense on stilts". | ||
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| + | For more on natural rights, see: | ||
| + | * [[Natural Rights]] | ||
== Hohfeld's Classification Of Rights == | == Hohfeld's Classification Of Rights == | ||
== Moral Rights And Enforced Rights == | == Moral Rights And Enforced Rights == | ||
