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Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 1992
Abstract This essay examines the relation between law and morality with respect to a particular concept – a right. In opposition to the view defended by Jeremy Bentham and, more recently, Raymond Frey and L. W. Sumner that only institutionally conferred rights are real rights, the argument here is that moral rights are common parts of ...
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Abstract This essay examines the relation between law and morality with respect to a particular concept – a right. In opposition to the view defended by Jeremy Bentham and, more recently, Raymond Frey and L. W. Sumner that only institutionally conferred rights are real rights, the argument here is that moral rights are common parts of ...
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2022
Abstract This chapter focuses on moral rights conferred by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 on the authors of certain works to protect their non-pecuniary or non-economic interests. It begins by describing the nature of and rationales for grant of moral rights as well as a number of criticisms made about such rights.
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Abstract This chapter focuses on moral rights conferred by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 on the authors of certain works to protect their non-pecuniary or non-economic interests. It begins by describing the nature of and rationales for grant of moral rights as well as a number of criticisms made about such rights.
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Inquiry, 1979
In Section I, the purely conceptual issue as to whether animals other than human beings, all or some, may possess rights is examined. This is approached via a consideration of the concept of a moral right, and by way of examining the claims of sentience, consciousness, capacities for pleasure and pain, having desires, possessing interests, self ...
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In Section I, the purely conceptual issue as to whether animals other than human beings, all or some, may possess rights is examined. This is approached via a consideration of the concept of a moral right, and by way of examining the claims of sentience, consciousness, capacities for pleasure and pain, having desires, possessing interests, self ...
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Morally Good and Morally Right
Monist, 1970Let us understand at the outset that by "morally good" we mean the state of possessing what is generally regarded as good character, rooted in virtue, in the broad sense of this term that embraces a variety of particular virtues such as courage, justice, temperance and the like.
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2019
Abstract The concept of moral rights is prominent in much ethical and political thought. This chapter argues that utilitarians can and should give an account of the existence of moral rights. It surveys existing utilitarian accounts of rights, before developing a novel indirect theory of them.
Paul Goldstein, P Bernt Hugenholtz
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Abstract The concept of moral rights is prominent in much ethical and political thought. This chapter argues that utilitarians can and should give an account of the existence of moral rights. It surveys existing utilitarian accounts of rights, before developing a novel indirect theory of them.
Paul Goldstein, P Bernt Hugenholtz
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Abstract Important ways of using the term moral rights (or human rights or natural rights) can be captured if moral rights are contrasted with legal rights. Legal rights are artifacts of a legal process. Whatever moral rights are, they are not that. Rather, a claim of moral right is a claim about what legal rights people ought to have.
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Kant on Right and Moral Rights
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 2000Etude de la distinction entre devoir juridique et devoir par vertu dans la doctrine du devoir developpee par Kant dans les «Fondements de la metaphysique des moeurs». Examinant les notions de devoir parfait, d'action droite et de droit d'action, l'A. souleve le probleme de l'interpretation des deux premieres formulations de l'imperatif categorique (la ...
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Abortion, Personhood, and Moral Rights
Monist, 1981Defenses of abortion have by and large focussed upon one or the other of two topics: the question of the personhood of the fetus, or the question of the woman's rights as weighed against those of the fetus. I will criticize one attempt?probably the most widely read, certainly the most widely anthologized?to defend abortion by denying the personhood of ...
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