The second of the five classes of moral terms and judgments is ‘rights’.

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1. What is meant by the statement,“John has a right to do X?

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2. What does it mean to say that a person has a right to an object of interest?

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3. Plato’s stated,“Every man has a right to be punished”. How can punishment be a right when it is clearly regarded as an object of disinterest?

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4. How do you distinguish between actual objects of interest and potential objects of interest?

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5. How do you distinguish between moral rights and legal rights?

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6. How are ‘rights’ different from ‘duties’?

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7. How many other terms which have a meaning similar as ‘rights’ can you identify”?

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8. What does it mean to say that ‘John has a claim to X’?

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9. Does ‘To be entitled to’ mean the same as ‘to be warranted in’?

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10. Is the word “Legitimate”also used in a moral sense?

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