TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1997//
TI  - Rethinking rights, preserving community: How my mind has changed
JO  - Journal of Religious Ethics
A1  - Dyck, A.J.
SP  - 3
EP  - 14
VL  - 25
IS  - 1
N2  - Just below the surface of public life in the United States, a biblically based theory of rights vies with a theory that first appeared in the work of Bentham and Mill, and the latter is gaining increasing dominance. The resolution of this conflict has implications for a host of legal matters and public policy decisions, including life and death issues like physician-assisted suicide. Though the ascendancy of the Millian tradition reflects widespread skepticism concerning the possibility of developing a basis for a common morality or defending a conception of natural inalienable rights, the author argues that a plausible account of common human morality can be developed from attention to the relationships that are requisite for sustaining the communities that are the condition of moral agency.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0384-9694
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -