DEVS 492 Chapter week 3: Global Insurrection - week 3 readings
10 Oct 2016
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This paper is about conflicts of rights. In our moral thinking, should we regard rights as considerations that are capable of conflicting with one another, and if they are to be thought of in this way, how such conflicts should be resolved. First, that if rights are understood along the lines of the interest theory proposed by joseph raz, then conflicts of rights must be regarded as more or less inevitable. Second, that rights on this conception should be thought of not as correlative to single duties, but as generating a multiplicity of duties. Third, this multiplicity stands in the way of any tidy or single minded account of the way in which the resolution of rights conflicts should be approached. Nozick rights are thought to be as side constraints limits on the actions that are morally available to any agent.
