Saturday, February 6, 2016

Right, Freedom, Responsibility

A Right is a protection of Freedom.  A Responsibility is a delimitation of Freedom.  Thus, the primacy of Freedom in modern Political Philosophy is reflected in absence of attention to Responsibility corresponding to that of Right, i. e. there is no concept of a Natural Responsibility, no Bill of Responsibilities in the U. S. Constitution, etc.  Likewise, the U. N. Human Right to an adequate standard of living is, essentially, a formulation of a responsibility to help those in need, assigned to no one in particular, i. e. it avoids any delimitation of Freedom.

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