Sentence examples for conceptions of rights from inspiring English sources

These three conceptions of rights offer somewhat different ways of reconciling utility and rights.

It would be premature to say that they are fully adequate conceptions of rights, but they do offer some promise of reconciling utility and rights.

Instead of pitting conceptions of value against conceptions of rights, it has been suggested that there may be two different conceptions of intrinsic value in play in discussion about environmental good and evil.

If a sense of self does not develop in a Western gendered system, issues of justice in the context of sexual and cultural differences may require a more substantial conception of equality than the formal rights rooted in early modern liberalism, and drawing instead from postcolonial, ecofeminist, and socialist transformations of liberal conceptions of rights (Willett 2008).

It raises many questions, both about strategies for doing this and the potential for reconciling what may be very different conceptions of rights, for instance in the context of more controversial areas such as safe abortion.

The condemnation has been shaped by religious beliefs, conceptions of right and acceptable behavior, and respect for the traditional family.

Our respondents are guided by subjective feelings more than they are by appeals to rational, intellectual and objective conceptions of right and wrong.

Reconciliation in Christ, the confession asserted, must mean the willingness to reexamine even the contemporary church's conceptions of right and wrong.

On the basis of his naturalistic metaphysics, Spinoza also offers trenchant criticisms of ordinary conceptions of right and duty.

They will believe in different religions or none at all; they will have differing conceptions of right and wrong; they will value various pursuits and forms of interpersonal relations.

Numerous variants of the theory have been presented: historically, figures including Saint Augustine, Duns Scotus, and Thomas Aquinas have presented various versions of divine command theory; more recently, Robert Merrihew Adams has proposed a "modified divine command theory" based on the omnibenevolence of God in which morality is linked to human conceptions of right and wrong.