Unnatural rights

Canadian Journal of Philosophy

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 49-82

  Darby, Derrick ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33748920627     PISSN: 00455091     EISSN: 19110820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00455091.2003.10716535     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Matthew Arnold, Mixed Essays, Irish Essays and Others (New York: Macmillan & Co. 1883), 36
2. So I shall settle for articulating and defending my alternative position. Elsewhere I argue that worlds without natural rights would not be morally impoverished, Derrick Darby, 'Are Worlds Without Natural Rights Morally Impoverished?' The Southern Journal of Philosophy 37 (1999) 397-417
3. For illuminating reconstructions of Bentham's critique of natural rights, see H.L.A. Hart, Essays on Bentham: Studies in Jurisprudence and Political Theory (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1982), ch. 4
4. John Deigh, 'Rights and the Authority of Law,' The University of Chicago Law Review 51 (1984) 668-99
5. and L.W. Sumner, The Moral Foundation of Rights (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1987), ch. 4
6. For well-developed versions of this critique, see Karl Klare, 'Labor Law as Ideology: Toward a New Historiography of Collective Bargaining Law,' Industrial Relations Law Journal 4 (1981) 450-82
7. and Peter Gabel, 'The Phenomenology of Rights-Consciousness and the Pact of the Withdrawn Selves,' Texas Law Review 62 (1984) 1563-99
8. Gabel, 'The Phenomenology of Rights-Consciousness and the Pact of the Withdrawn Selves,' 1581
9. Diane Polan, 'Toward a Theory of Law and Patriarchy,' in The Politics of Law: A Progressive Critique, David Kairys, ed. (New York: Pantheon Books 1982), 298-9
10. Robert W. Gordon, 'New Developments in Legal Theory,' The Politics of Law: A Progressive Critique (Revised Edition), David Kairys, ed. (New York: Pantheon Books 1990), 422-3
11. Cheryl Harris, 'Whiteness as Property,' Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed The Movement, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, and Kendall Thomas, eds. (New York: The New Press 1995), 283, 286, 287
12. Frederick Douglass, 'What the Black Man Wants,' in Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal, Manning Marable and Leith Mullings, eds. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield 2000), 128, brilliantly expresses this point in very general terms: The story of our inferiority is an old dodge, as I have said; for wherever men oppress their fellows, wherever they enslave them, they will endeavor to find the needed apology for such enslavement and oppression in the character of the people oppressed and enslaved .... So, too, the Negro, when he is to be robbed of any right which is justly his, is an 'inferior man.'
13. Two Treatises of Government, P. Laslett, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1963), 271-3
14. Feinberg, Rights, Justice, and the Bounds of Liberty, 154
15. The Moral Foundation of Rights, ch. 6
16. For a defense and a critique of right-based moral theory, see J.L. Mackie, 'Can There Be a Right-Based Moral Theory?' and Joseph Raz, 'Right-Based Moralities,' respectively, in Theories of Rights, Jeremy Waldron, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1984)
17. Sumner, The Moral Foundation of Rights, 148
18. and by Ronald Dworkin, 'Model of Rules II,' in his Taking Rights Seriously (Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1977)