PP110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Negative And Positive Rights
Document Summary
Rights: negative rights= concerned with life, liberty and property (obligation of non- interference, positive rights= concerned with education, health and material welfare (the obligation to provide) He argues the night watchmen state is the only morally justified state, therefore society focuses on negative rights: patterned theories (take natural dimension as criteria for the just distribution) Theories about the distribution of scarce resources that are forward-looking (what should be, end result) One looks at a current level of distribution and determines whether or not it matches the way you want society to be in the future.
