Rights, explanation, and risks
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An adequate theory of rights explains facts about the morality of risk impositions and their internal structure. Issues, such as self-defence and compensation, necessitate the incorporation of the Risk Thesis into the theory of rights to enhance its explanatory powers. The Direct Payment Rule and the Natural Lottery Rule help to explain the intuitive need behind the Compensation Idea. However, some writers' reservations about including moral constraints and prerogatives within a rights theory have hampered the construction of a plausible theory of rights along these lines.
Publication Name: Ethics
Subject: Philosophy and religion
ISSN: 0014-1704
Year: 1997
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An objectivist's guide to subjective value
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Subjectivism can be explained and justified within objectivism in a framework of ethical consequentialism. The proper ideal for regulating the behavior of moral agents is one of maximizing objective value. Nevertheless, since agents do not know the objective values, they must rely on their best estimates, which coincide with subjective values in many cases. The objectivist view provides an alternative, more causally sensitive selection procedure to follow when subjectivism does not result in maximizing objective value.
Publication Name: Ethics
Subject: Philosophy and religion
ISSN: 0014-1704
Year: 1992
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Parents' rights and the value of the family
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Parents' rights with respect to their children are examined. It is argued that parents do indeed have rights with respect to their children, and it is proposed that these rights are conditional on their succeeding in protecting their children's interests up to a fairly high threshold.
Publication Name: Ethics
Subject: Philosophy and religion
ISSN: 0014-1704
Year: 2006
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