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On Rights A Defense And Analysis Of Rights Through Natural Law, Ramon E. Lopez
On Rights A Defense And Analysis Of Rights Through Natural Law, Ramon E. Lopez
HIM 1990-2015
One of the central questions in political theory deals with the nature of rights. What sorts of rights do people possess? How are these rights justified? How ought these rights be reflected and related when seen in political, economic, and social institutions? Following the publication of John Rawls' A Theory of Justice (1971) and Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), rights have once again returned to dominate much of contemporary political theory. However, natural law, which was the historical basis of the early Enlightenment theories of rights, is no longer the primary system appealed to when discussing rights. In …