Why aren't duties rights?

Philosophical Quarterly

Volumn 56, Issue 223, 2006, Pages 175-192

  Cruft, Rowan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 61049382126     PISSN: 00318094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9213.2006.00436.x     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. See L. Sumner, The Moral Foundations of Rights (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987)
2. P. Jones, Rights (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994)
3. M. Kramer, 'Rights Without Trimmings', in M. Kramer, N. Simmonds and H. Steiner, A Debate Over Rights: Philosophical Enquiries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), pp. 7-111
4. L. Wenar, 'The Nature of Rights', Philosophy and Public Affairs, 33 (2005), pp. 223-52
5. R. Cruft, 'Rights: Beyond Interest Theory and Will Theory?', hereafter RBI, Law and Philosophy, 23 (2004), pp. 347-97
6. See W. Hohfeld, Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning (Yale UP, 1964
7. M. Kramer and H. Steiner, 'Theories of Rights: Is There a Third Way?', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (forthcoming, 2007)
8. For a full introduction to the debate between interest and will theorists, see the three essays in Kramer, Simmonds and Steiner, A Debate over Rights: Philosophical Enquiries
9. For a precursor of Wenar's multi-function view, see J. Nickel, Making Sense of Human Rights: Philosophical Reflections on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Univ. of California Press, 1987), pp. 19-26
10. N. MacCormick, 'Children's Rights: a Test-Case for Theories of Right', repr. in his Legal Right and Social Democracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982), pp. 154-66
11. Kramer, 'Rights Without Trimmings'
12. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (Oxford: Blackwell, 1953), §66
13. The illustrative example here was inspired by a similar one in Steiner, An Essay on Rights (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994), p. 84
14. J.J. Thomson, The Realm of Rights (Harvard UP, 1990), p. 47