Levenbook, Barbara Baum. Are There Any Positive Rights?
1990, Archiv für Rechts- Und Sozialphilosophie 42:156-66
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Added by: Chris Blake-Turner, Contributed by: Barbara Baum LevenbookAbstract:
This essay is aimed at those moral philosophers who recognize a certain category of negative moral rights, but refuse to recognize a similar category of positive moral rights. That category consists of moral rights normally held by human beings. Such rights may be called "natural moral rights." My thesis is that if there is a natural negative right not to be killed, then -- contra Thomson, Nozick and others -- there must be at least one natural positive right, which might be called a "right not to be allowed to die."
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