phil ethics random
Terms
- Feinberg - two senses of duty
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Old sense-Mill-what we owe to others, what may be exacted from us as one exacts a debt, what are due someone else-correlative rights
New sense-any action understood to be required-often no rights that correlate to duties in this sense
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Feinberg - Nowhersville - duties without correlative rights
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no one has rights, people virtuous, act benevolently, duties in new sense of moral requirements, weak desert fitting students judges, oblig owed God mairrage promise
legal-owe obed to law
Charity-no one claim contrib due
- Difference between our world and Nowheresville - Feinberg
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main difference is activity of claiming-badly treated o do not demand against another-no notion of rights so no notion of due, so do not claim
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Feinberg's analysis of rights - the strategy
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right kind of claim, claim is 'assertion of right'-so cannot just define terms eachother-use idea claim in informal elucid idea right
Claiming rule-gov activ-c only have r to, behalf onself, perform-have is position claim
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