… moral issues in terms of the rights of persons. Phrasing our moral concerns in the language
of rights and duties demonstrates the exhortative power of moral language. Its function is to …

… The latter connotes moral necessity or strict duty, which is antithetical to the idea of charity; …
First, in this context I was concerned to distinguish rights not from duties but rather from …

… The second objection concerned the … duty, no legal duty, no religious duty, and no moral
duty to make the maximal amount of money one is capable of earning. Indeed, there is no duty …

… moral rights and duties. In this paper, I defined genuinely conventionalist theories as theories
that justify a moral right or duty … reasons for our moral rights and duties. Various genuinely …

… we have duties in virtue of the rights of others, or vice versa. Second, many traditional ‘rights’ …
does not show that they have explanatory priority, which is what concerns me. There is no …

… Some of these responsibilities concern clinical standards; some entail the respect that is …
moral importance to the duties of care?Is the answer one of moral intuition? Such feelings of …

… Indeed, if it could be really proved that men have to choose between renouncing moral …
We believe that morality depends upon something deeper and more permanent than any of …

… Here, as elsewhere, our most important concerns depend upon distinctions of degree.
The … This is the' case whether we describe A's right and B's duty as moral or as legal. The …

… concerned here with two propositions about the moral significance of infringing another's
rights… truth by most moral and social philosophers) is that infringing rights is sometimes morally …

… concerns. The tradition has its own criteria for its claims, to some extent independent of any
of these particular highly abstract moral … to explain the moral weight of human rights and to …