Rights, Abstraction, and Correlativity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21687137 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julian Jonker (0000-0002-0452-0121, University of Pennsylvania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 122-150 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Legal Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1352-3252 • E-ISSN: 1469-8048 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s135232522300006x |
| OpenAlex | W4386543665 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
I survey several counterexamples (by Raz and MacCormick) to Hohfeld's conjecture that a claim-right is correlative to a directed duty and (by Cornell and Frick) to Bentham's suggestion that a claim-right is correlative to a wronging. We can vindicate these claims of correlativity if we acknowledge that entitlements like claim-rights and directed duties admit of degrees of abstraction: that they may be general rather than specific, unspecified rather than specified, or indefinite rather than definite. I provide an error theory consisting in linguistic and practical reasons for why we articulate normative incidents in ways that threaten correlativity. And I deny that abstraction imposes a heavy metaphysical cost on rights theory, though I leave open whether abstraction excludes certain explanatory accounts of rights such as the interest theory or will theory
Abstraction · Conjecture · Correlative · Counterexample · Discrete mathematics · Duty · Epistemology · Linguistics · Metaphysics · Normative · Pure mathematics · Theology · Computer Science · Free Will and Agency · Mathematics · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |