Moral Right

A Moral Right is a agent right justified by moral principles that enables moral agents to claim specific moral entitlements (protected through moral systems via moral reasoning).

AKA: Ethical Right, Natural Right, Fundamental Right.
Context:
- It can range from being a Universal Moral Right to being a Contextual Moral Right, based on moral scope.
- It can range from being a Basic Moral Right to being a Complex Moral Right, based on moral complexity.
- It can range from being a Direct Moral Right to being an Indirect Moral Right, based on moral derivation.
- It can range from being a Personal Moral Right to being a Collective Moral Right, based on right holder.
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- It can (typically) derive from Moral Principles through ethical reasoning.
- It can (typically) generate Moral Obligations through reciprocal duty.
- It can (typically) require Moral Recognition through social conscience.
- It can (typically) enable Moral Claims through moral justification.
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- It can (often) conflict with Legal Rights through normative tension.
- It can (often) precede Legal Recognition through moral evolution.
- It can (often) inspire Social Movements through moral conviction.
- It can (often) shape Cultural Values through moral influence.
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- It can manifest in Moral Domains through:
  - Personal Domains affecting individual autonomy
  - Social Domains affecting collective welfare
  - Environmental Domains affecting ecological balance
  - Cultural Domains affecting heritage preservation
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Examples:
- Fundamental Moral Rights, such as:
  - Right to Life for human existence
  - Right to Liberty for personal freedom
  - Right to Dignity for human worth
- Social Moral Rights, such as:
  - Right to Education for personal development
  - Right to Healthcare for physical wellbeing
  - Right to Equality for social justice
- Environmental Moral Rights, such as:
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Counter-Examples:
- Legal Privileges, which require formal recognition rather than moral justification
- Social Customs, which reflect cultural practices rather than moral principles
- Arbitrary Claims, which lack moral foundation
- Personal Preferences, which reflect individual desires rather than moral rights
- Contractual Rights, which derive from agreement rather than moral principle
See: Right, Moral Law, Natural Law, Ethical System, Moral Philosophy, Human Rights, Justice, Moral Duty, Moral Obligation, Social Justice, Human Right, Civil Right, Animal Right.

References

2015

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rights/
- QUOTE: Rights are entitlements (not) to perform certain actions, or (not) to be in certain states; or entitlements that others (not) perform certain actions or (not) be in certain states. Rights dominate modern understandings of what actions are permissible and which institutions are just. Rights structure the form of governments, the content of laws, and the shape of morality as it is currently perceived. To accept a set of rights is to approve a distribution of freedom and authority, and so to endorse a certain view of what may, must, and must not be done.
  [[This entry begins by describing the nature of rights: their classification, their composition, and their function. It then reviews the history of the language of rights, and various relationships between rights and reasons. The major contemporary philosophical approaches to the justification of rights are compared, and the entry concludes by surveying criticisms of rights and “rights talk.” The focus throughout is on general theoretical issues instead of on the analysis or justification of specific rights or types of rights.

(Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights Retrieved:2015-11-16.
- Moral rights are rights of creators of copyrighted works generally recognized in civil law jurisdictions and, to a lesser extent, in some common law jurisdictions. They include the right of attribution, the right to have a work published anonymously or pseudonymously, and the right to the integrity of the work. <ref> "moral, adj."