Rights and the Presumption of Care

  • Virginia Held
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Part of the Law and Philosophy Library book series (LAPS, volume 44)

Abstract

Carl Wellman has done much to clarify our thinking on rights. He helps us understand how, exactly, “Carl has a right to X” should be analyzed, and to see the different kinds of rights there are, such as institutional, especially legal, rights, and moral, including individual and corporate, rights. His topology is surely useful, though it can be challenged. And his arguments for the clarification that can be achieved by employing the Hohfeldian model of claims, liberties, powers, and immunities for the rights in question can benefit all of us who deal with moral issues.

Keywords

Civil Society Social Trust Social Connectedness Democratic Institution Rational Choice Theorist 
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