Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1991
Journal Title
Journal of Value Inquiry
Volume
25
Issue
3
Abstract
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.
Recommended Citation
Richard Stith, Generosity: A Duty Without a Right, 25 J. Value Inquiry 203 (1991).