Journal article
Rights Thinking
Abstract
Judgments about right are normally circumscribed and balanced by other considerations but it is possible to imagine ‘rights thinking’ as occurring without any such admixture. This pure rights thinking is characterized by several distinctive features. First, resentment, respect, and other passions of rectitude overrule sympathetic feelings of concern and compassion, love and affection. One responds simply as justice demands, never allowing …
Authors
Simpson E
Journal
Philosophy, Vol. 72, No. 279, pp. 29–58
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date
January 1997
DOI
10.1017/s0031819100056643
ISSN
0031-8191