rights, rights, and still more rights

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Mon Apr 1 14:19:29 PST 2002


----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 10:45 AM Subject: Re: rights, rights, and still more rights


> Not at all. It's to say that I don;t care to get into it--you can believe
> that rights were delivered by Zeus in a sidecar, Nozick can think that
they
> inhere in The Objective Order, and I can think they are social conventions
> based in facts about conditions for fair cooperation.

How you arrive at a conception of rights plays a large role in where that conception takes you. In part, this explains the pronounced absence of Lockean socialists.

-- Luke



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