Ethical Truths
What is morally acceptable depends on a person's character.
Virtue Ethics
To have valid claims to, or entitlements to, some kind of treatment by other agents in virtue of one's nature, characteristics, or capabilities.
Moral status
A type of rights that can be applied to all people at all times.
Universal rights
An ethical or philosophical value that an entity has, in and of itself.
Inherent value
A political philosopher who underlined the importance of agency, as a political voice, for democratic action.
Hannah Arendt
Different communities have different situations and needs.
Ethics of diversity.
A moral rule or principle.
Ethical maxim
A belief or principle which is perceived as extremely morally necessary
Imperative
A moral obligation to decide fairly between competing claims.
Justice
The Utilitarian philosopher who claims that all human and non-human animal suffering counts.
Peter Singer
Different conflicting ethical values are equally valid.
What is Ethical Pluralism
Refusal to obey the demands or commands of a government or occupying power, without resorting to violence or active measures of opposition.
Civil disobedience
An example of a modern day Ethics of Rights framework.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Individuals in a community that have an obligation to other communities members.
Rights observers
A prominent civil disobedience activist who developed the concept of direct action and underlined the importance of constructive tension.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Ethics of Care
Rights of non-interference that entitle a person to be let alone in one manner or another such as freedom of speech, life, ...
Negative rights
An ethical theory based on duty, respect, and integrity.
Ethics of Rights
Rights that provide something that people need to secure their well being, such as a right to an education.
Positive rights
The philosopher who argued that the right thing to do is based on duties established by reason and can be stated as a categorical imperative.
Kant
The use of moral reasoning to apply the ethical principles of beneficence and respect for ALL persons and communities.
Ethical Multiculturalism
Individuals in a community that have an entitlement or claim on someone else in a community.
Rights holders
A moral law that is unconditional or absolute for all agents and can be willed upon one's self.
Categorical imperative
A concept that claims that rights observers should not use someone merely as a means to an end, but as an end in one's self.
Ethical respect
This philosopher coined an important Greek term, eudaimonia, it is considered as the highest human good, the only human good that is desirable for its own sake (as an end in itself) rather than for the sake of something else.
Aristotle