
It's My Right: What are Natural Rights and What Rights Do We Have? | V. Bradley Lewis
The Thomistic Institute
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Theories of Rights and Philosophical Perspectives
The chapter explores the benefit theory and choice theory as explanations for rights, focusing on criticisms and counterexamples within the philosophical perspectives of Bentham, Hart, and McCormick. It analyzes how these theories apply to children's rights, moral rights, and compares modern liberal views to the Thomistic account of natural rights.
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