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Brownlee, Kimberley (2020) Getting rights out of wrongs. In: Sobel, David and Vallentyne, Peter and Wall, Steven, (eds.) Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Series, 6 . Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198852636
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198852636.003.0001
Abstract
Sometimes, we can gain new moral rights by acting wrongly. Sometimes, we can gain new moral rights (in addition to restitution rights) from other people acting wrongly. This chapter presents a typology of these rights. It then analyses why some wrongs can change the moral ballgame in this way to give us new rights, and other wrongs cannot. The chapter focuses on three factors that are relevant to moral ballgame-changing cases: (1) legitimate expectations; (2) personal investments; and (3) piggybacking on others’ interests. Finally, the chapter examines two ultimately unsuccessful strategies to resist this analysis of wrong-generated rights. The first strategy pertains to the defeasibility of rights. The second strategy pertains to their conditionality.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics J Political Science > JC Political theory |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Civil rights, Human rights, Civil disobedience, Conduct of life, Ethics | ||||||||
Series Name: | Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Series | ||||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
Place of Publication: | Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY | ||||||||
ISBN: | 9780198852636 | ||||||||
Book Title: | Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy | ||||||||
Editor: | Sobel, David and Vallentyne, Peter and Wall, Steven | ||||||||
Official Date: | 5 February 2020 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 6 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780198852636.003.0001 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Getting rights out of wrongs, Brownlee, K. in Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy edited by David Sobel, Peter Vallentyne, and Steven Wall, 2020, reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198852636.003.0001 | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 8 April 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 5 February 2022 | ||||||||
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