Two questions for Wolterstorff: on the roles played by rights-talk in history and the measuring of worth
Much of Nicholas Wolterstorff's argument in <em>Justice: Rights and Wrongs</em> is persuasive and helpful, especially his focus on perceiving instances of injustice as <em>wronging</em>, i.e., the denial of the goods to which one has a right. Two aspects of his theory ar...
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| description | Much of Nicholas Wolterstorff's argument in <em>Justice: Rights and Wrongs</em> is persuasive and helpful, especially his focus on perceiving instances of injustice as <em>wronging</em>, i.e., the denial of the goods to which one has a right. Two aspects of his theory are less persuasive, one historical and one theoretical. Historically, although he convincingly shows that the concept of rights is much older than some claim, he does not account for how the function of rights-talks may have changed. Theoretically, his account of worth seems undeveloped. Worthy art or worthy philosophy papers or worthy acts of love have different rights than unworthy such objects. But how is such worth measured? It would seem that the standard of excellence appropriate to each object does at least part of the work in generating the right, thus suggesting that rights are not generated by worth alone, as Wolterstorff implies. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:4e70efd7-e333-460b-bdae-6855fcc058e52022-03-26T16:01:07ZTwo questions for Wolterstorff: on the roles played by rights-talk in history and the measuring of worthJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:4e70efd7-e333-460b-bdae-6855fcc058e5Theology and ReligionEnglishOxford University Research Archive - ValetSAGE Publications2010Perry, JSociety for the Study of Christian EthicsMuch of Nicholas Wolterstorff's argument in <em>Justice: Rights and Wrongs</em> is persuasive and helpful, especially his focus on perceiving instances of injustice as <em>wronging</em>, i.e., the denial of the goods to which one has a right. Two aspects of his theory are less persuasive, one historical and one theoretical. Historically, although he convincingly shows that the concept of rights is much older than some claim, he does not account for how the function of rights-talks may have changed. Theoretically, his account of worth seems undeveloped. Worthy art or worthy philosophy papers or worthy acts of love have different rights than unworthy such objects. But how is such worth measured? It would seem that the standard of excellence appropriate to each object does at least part of the work in generating the right, thus suggesting that rights are not generated by worth alone, as Wolterstorff implies. |
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| title | Two questions for Wolterstorff: on the roles played by rights-talk in history and the measuring of worth |
| title_full | Two questions for Wolterstorff: on the roles played by rights-talk in history and the measuring of worth |
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| title_short | Two questions for Wolterstorff: on the roles played by rights-talk in history and the measuring of worth |
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