Saturday, November 14, 2020

Rights

From a review of What’s Wrong With Rights? by Nigel Biggar:
.... Rights are qualified by duty, not least that not to harm others. There is a liberty that belongs to Christian people by the word of God, a liberty Biggar defines as “the freedom not to be forced to do anything that God forbids, or to be forcibly prevented from doing anything he commands.” Also, to have a right “is not yet to have moral permission to assert it” — the social good might demand otherwise. ....
What’s Wrong with Rights by Nigel Biggar review: one man's crusade for intellectual freedom continues

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