On Duties & Rights
- Only persons can be subject of duties & rights
- All rights have corresponding duties - every “claim” in justice has an offsetting “due”
- All rights & duties flow from the eternal law
- God has only rights corresponding to duties imposed by Him
- Man’s rights are rooted in God’s rights - also giving rise to corresponding duties of his fellow man and society to respect his due rights
- Persons can never be the object of right (e.g., evil forms of slavery)
- The term of a right is the person with the corresponding duty
- The object is the matter of the right (e.g., right to life)
- Rights can arise under different titles or reasons
- Rights & Duties can never contradict but only apparently - God can not contradict Himself
- Rights have limits - ceasing to be a right at the point where a conflicting duty arises that is superior
Labels: Ethics, Social Teaching
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