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 I've often thought that both justice and
some basic rights can be founded on a concept of the common good. Justice must pay attention to the common good; and the common good, if it means anything at all, includes meeting the basic needs of everyone in a society. This would imply that everyone has a right to have their basic needs met by society. And, yes, Dee, that really means met by other individuals. I think that libertarianism goes off track by stressing individual rights, and that utilitarianism goes off track by stressing aggregate welfare in such a way that the individual may be sacrificed for an alleged greater good. The solution, it seems to me is to return to the ideas of basic needs and the common good. Does D D. Raphael argue this? See sources. |
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