Rights, Wronging, and Equality of Status

IF 0.8 2区 哲学 Q3 ETHICS
Giulio Fornaroli
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Two problems about rights have received so far little attention. One is the problem of identifying a general value in the practice of rights. The second is to see when, if at all, rights violations wrong the right-holder, in a morally significant sense. In the present essay, I address the first question by investigating the second. I first show that if we commit to the two ideas, common in the contemporary philosophy of rights, that claim-rights always correlate with directed duties and that rights aspire to protect interests of the right-holder, we make it hard to explain why rights violations, in general, wrong right-holders. In the final section, I present what I see as a promising solution to the puzzle. I describe a particular social environment (the society of equals) where interacting with others through rights is indeed valuable because respecting rights communicates that one takes seriously others’ equal moral status. In such a society and only in such a society, I conclude, moral agents are required to treat all rights violations as wrongs perpetrated against the right-holder.

权利、错误和地位平等
迄今为止,有两个关于权利的问题很少受到关注。其一是确定权利实践中的一般价值问题。第二个问题是,从道德意义上讲,侵犯权利的行为何时会损害权利人的利益。在本文中,我通过研究第二个问题来解决第一个问题。我首先表明,如果我们坚持当代权利哲学中常见的两种观点,即主张权利总是与有指向性的义务相关联,以及权利渴望保护权利人的利益,那么我们就很难解释为什么一般来说侵犯权利会损害权利人的利益。在最后一节中,我提出了一个有希望解决这一难题的方案。我描述了一种特殊的社会环境(平等社会),在这种环境中,通过权利与他人互动确实是有价值的,因为尊重权利就意味着一个人认真对待他人平等的道德地位。我的结论是,在这样的社会中,也只有在这样的社会中,道德主体才需要将所有侵犯权利的行为视为对权利拥有者犯下的错误。
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期刊介绍: Law and Philosophy is a forum for the publication of work in law and philosophy which is of common interest to members of the two disciplines of jurisprudence and legal philosophy. It is open to all approaches in both fields and to work in any of the major legal traditions - common law, civil law, or the socialist tradition. The editors of Law and Philosophy encourage papers which exhibit philosophical reflection on the law informed by a knowledge of the law, and legal analysis informed by philosophical methods and principles.
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