The Dialectics of Power, Rights, and Responsibility

It is not uncommon for a treatment of rights to be treatment against power with some concession to the responsibilities that a tutelary of rights enjoys. We owe it to legal philosophers of the Scholastic persuasion who recognized rights as the entitlements that allow a person to fulfill duties—whet...

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Main Author: Ranhilio Callangan Aquino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Santo Tomas 2009-06-01
Series:Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy
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Online Access:http://www.kritike.org/journal/issue_5/aquino_june2009.pdf