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Putting Rights in Their Place

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2016

Hillel Steiner
Hillel Steiner*
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University of Manchester
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Summary

This essay explores Sen’s claim that rights-realization can be consequentially evaluated. Supporting this claim, it attempts to show that the value pluralism thereby presupposed is sufficient to render superfluous the idea — advanced by Sen and others — of ‘agent-relativity’ as a structural feature of ethical judgment.

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Nous examinons la vue avancée par Sen selon laquelle la réalisation des droits peut être évaluée dans un cadre conséquentialiste. Partant de cette vue, nous tentons de montrer que le pluralisme des valeurs qu’elle contient suffit à rendre superflue l’autre idée, aussi avancée par Sen (et par d’autres) selon laquelle la “relativité par rapport à l’agent” est un trait structurel du jugement éthique.

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Recherches Économiques de Louvain/ Louvain Economic Review , Volume 56 , Issue 3-4: A Special Issue in Honor of Professor A. Sen : Alternatives to Welfarism , 1990 , pp. 391 - 408
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Copyright © Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de recherches économiques et sociales 1990 

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