How Rights Became "Subjective"

Mautner, Thomas

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How Rights Became "Subjective"

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2013

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Mautner, Thomas

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Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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What is commonly called a right has since about 1980 increasingly come to be called a subjective right. In this paper the origin and rise of this solecism is investigated. Its use can result in a lack of clarity and even confusion. Some aspects of rights-concepts and their history are also discussed. A brief postscript introduces Leibniz's Razor.

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/70964

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Ratio Juris

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Journal article

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Open Access

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10.1111/raju.12005

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