XI—Why is it Disrespectful to Violate Rights?
Article first published online: 24 OCT 2013
© 2013 The Aristotelian Society
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Hardback)
Volume 113, Issue 2pt2, pages 201–224, July 2013
How to Cite
Cruft, R. (2013), XI—Why is it Disrespectful to Violate Rights?. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Hardback), 113: 201–224. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9264.2013.00352.x
- Issue published online: 24 OCT 2013
- Article first published online: 24 OCT 2013
Violating a person's rights is disrespectful to that person. This is because it is disrespectful to someone to violate duties owed to that person. I call these ‘directed duties’; they are the flipside of rights. The aim of this paper is to consider why directed duties and respect are linked, and to highlight a puzzle about this linkage, a puzzle arising from the fact that many directed duties are justified independently of whether they do anything for those to whom they are owed.