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    John Locke: Natural Rights And Natural Duties
    Jahrbuch für Recht Und Ethik 4. 1996.
    The political problem John Locke inherited from Thomas Hobbes was to produce a theory of natural rights that would not preclude the possibility of entering peacefully into civil association. If political existence is grounded on an unmediated theory of natural right, where every individual has a natural right to whatever he or she conceives to be useful in assuring his or her preservation, and where there are no moral limits to what one's rights will justify, civil association cannot come about …Read more
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    “A Postscript to a Philosophical History of Rights”
    Human Rights Review 4 (1): 3-29. 2004.
    It seems that the philosophical history of rights has come to an end, replaced by the possibility of an endless construction of idealized linguistic usages, and a correlative possibility of a no less endless critique or deconstruction of those very same usages. If all rights are modes of rights talk, nothing more, we may want to retain the talk, but since it is no secret to the contemporary philosophical community (its analytical and postmodern segments) that rights have no reality beyond their…Read more