How Rights Became “Subjective”

Ratio Juris 26 (1):111-132 (2013)
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What is commonly called a right has since about 1980 increasingly come to be called a subjective right. In this paper the origin and rise of this solecism is investigated. Its use can result in a lack of clarity and even confusion. Some aspects of rights-concepts and their history are also discussed. A brief postscript introduces Leibniz's Razor

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Thomas Mautner
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