A key aspect of this intellectual tradition is the notion that natural rights are not created by governments. Enlightenment thinkers wanted to improve human conditions on earth rather than concern themselves with religion and the afterlife. The idea of society as a social contract, however, contrasted sharply with the realities of actual societies. Thus, the Enlightenment became critical, reforming, and eventually revolutionary.
Such powerful ideas found expression as reform in England and as revolution in France and America. The Enlightenment brought political modernization to the west, in terms of focusing on democratic values and institutions and the creation of modern, liberal democracies. Enlightenment thinkers sought to curtail the political power of organized religion, and thereby prevent another age of intolerant religious war.
The age of Enlightenment also had a profound effect on the economy. Ideas of free trade or laissez faire were first propagated in this period. As people moved from rural areas to cities, economic reliance shifted from agriculture to non-agriculture products. Life style began to change. Locke argued that humans could discover, through careful reasoning, that there are natural laws which suggest that we have natural rights to our own persons and to our own labour.
Eventually we could reason that we should create a social contract with others. Natural law, in philosophy, a system of right or justice held to be common to all humans and derived from nature rather than from the rules of society, or positive law. Natural Rights and Natural Law Legal rights are those bestowed onto a person by a given legal system i. OSO version 0. University Press Scholarship Online.
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Gary B. What does it mean to have a right? Duties are limits on freedom, meaning moral freedom or what a person is morally permitted to do. Hart argued that there are some examples where a person is the beneficiary of a duty but does not have a right. Hart was trying to discover what is distinctive about rights.
What do rights do that other moral notions, such as duties, do not? So one of his objections to the benefit theory is that it does not supply an answer to that question: rights and duties are just two different words for basically the same thing. One example involved third party beneficiaries. X promises Y to do something for Z. Only Y does.
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