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Title of the Book:Contemporary Moral Problems seventh edition by James E. WhiteBook Review Chapter:Joel Feinberg: The Nature and Value of RightsQuote:“A World very much like our own expect that no one, or hardly any one(the qualificationis not important), has rights.” PAGE 64What I expect to learn:
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The rights of nature and its value
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The morality of nature
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The morality of the value of natureReview:In this book Joel Feinberg demonstrate that rights are important. He imagines a worldthat has no rights. In a result that world cannot make moral claim when the people aretreated justly, that they cannot claim a just treatment. And the result is that the peopledeprived of self-respect and human dignity. PAGE 64. Joel Feinberg also discusses thathe tries to change the world of Nowherseville more appealing to Immanuel Kant. That if the brings the idea of duties in Nowherseville are their rights smuggled along with them.Joel answer the question by saying that all duties entail other people’s rights and all rightsentail other people’s duties. This only means that duties are interconnected to rights sothese means that duties cannot enter Nowherseville.What I learned:I’ve learned that moral it is important in this world because without moral our worldcannot be balanced.Integrative Questions:
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What kind of world is Nowherseville?
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Is moral important?Review Questions:1.
Describe Nowheresville. How this world different from our world?
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Nowheresville a world that has no rights.
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Our world is different because every one of us in this world has its own rights.
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Explain the doctrine of the logical correlativity of rights and duties. What is Feinberg’sposition on this doctrine?
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Joel Feinberg says that
all duties entail other people’s rights and all rightsentail other people’s duties.
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