Rights Ethics

Rights Ethics

The rights ethics is a protest towards absolutist ethics. It acknowledges the existence of moral rights. Those rights include: "liberty rights" and "welfare rights".

Works

Two important relevant documents were written in 1789:
*"The French Declaration of the Rights of Man"
*"United States Bill of Rights"

Philosophers

*John Locke
*Thomas Jefferson
*Gustavo Gutierrez
*Henry David Thoreau

ee also

*Moral absolutism


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