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1991

Jurisprudence

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Valparaiso University

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Generosity: A Duty Without A Right, Richard Stith Jan 1991

Generosity: A Duty Without A Right, Richard Stith

Law Faculty Publications

The rhetoric of rights permeates and dominates the American legal thought today. Even ethics is often considered to involve fundamentally a mutual respect for "moral rights." Understanding human rights is taken to be a sufficient condition for knowing how we do and should order our life together.