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A Debate Over Rights$
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Matthew H. Kramer, Simmonds N.E., and Steiner Hillel

Print publication date: 2000

Print ISBN-13: 9780198298991

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2010

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198298991.001.0001

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(p. 233 ) Working Rights1
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A Debate Over Rights
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HILLEL STEINER

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198298991.003.0004

This chapter advocates a version of the Will Theory of rights, whilst also maintaining (in opposition to the previous chapter) that an account of rights can be based entirely or almost entirely on formal considerations with no reliance or virtually no reliance on substantive ethical premises. It explores in some detail the Kantian conception of morality, in order to bolster his view that the delimitation of rights can be effected on the basis of purely formal criteria.

Keywords:   Interest Theory, Will Theory, Hohfeld, Kantism, Kant, H. L. A. Hart, rights, legal rights, ethics, morality

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