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    This document outlines an argument for a comprehensive conception of socioeconomic rights. It begins by discussing two possible answers to whether socioeconomic rights are moral or legal rights - that they are distributive justice moral rights or legal rights. It then proposes a strategy of developing a conception where the core of socioeconomic claims are moral rights, but their implementation involves legal rights and legislation. The document uses Samuel Sheffler's conception that every person has a right to a sufficient share of goods necessary for a decent life as a framework. It aims to challenge Rawlsian theories of distributive justice by including socioeconomic claims in the first principle of justice.

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    This document outlines an argument for a comprehensive conception of socioeconomic rights. It begins by discussing two possible answers to whether socioeconomic rights are moral or legal rights - that they are distributive justice moral rights or legal rights. It then proposes a strategy of developing a conception where the core of socioeconomic claims are moral rights, but their implementation involves legal rights and legislation. The document uses Samuel Sheffler's conception that every person has a right to a sufficient share of goods necessary for a decent life as a framework. It aims to challenge Rawlsian theories of distributive justice by including socioeconomic claims in the first principle of justice.

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    This document outlines an argument for a comprehensive conception of socioeconomic rights. It begins by discussing two possible answers to whether socioeconomic rights are moral or legal rights - that they are distributive justice moral rights or legal rights. It then proposes a strategy of developing a conception where the core of socioeconomic claims are moral rights, but their implementation involves legal rights and legislation. The document uses Samuel Sheffler's conception that every person has a right to a sufficient share of goods necessary for a decent life as a framework. It aims to challenge Rawlsian theories of distributive justice by including socioeconomic claims in the first principle of justice.

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    Are Socioeconomic Rights a matter of Distributive Justice?

    Patricio Espinoza Lucero MA Legal and Political Theory 25th, May 2011

    A concept of socioeconomic rights Socioeconoic Rights: moral or legal?

    OUTLINE

    Two possible answers


    Towards a comprehensive conception

    Strategy
    2

    Right to public provision of certain goods (Ferrajoli, 1999)

    A CONCEPT OF SOCIO ECONOMIC RIGHTS

    Positive action by the state


    Provision of basic goods What for? Social justification: Equal access to certain valuable human things

    Legal Rights

    SOCIO ECONOMIC RIGHTS MORAL OR LEGAL? TWO POSSIBLE ANSWERS


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    John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, Jeremy Waldron

    Distributive Justice Moral Rights

    Amartya Sen, Martha Nussbaum, Cecile Fabre

    Core: moral rights

    TOWARDS A COMPREHENSIVE PROTECTION


    Implementation: legal rights, legislation

    Samuel Shefflers conception

    every person has a natural right to a sufficient share of every distributable good whose enjoyment is necessary condition of the person s having a reasonable chance of living a decent and fulfilling life
    (Sheffler, 1981:153)

    Challenge Rawlsian difference principle by including the core of social claims in the first principle

    STRATEGY:
    THE COMPREHENSIVE CONCEPTION

    Give an account about whether and how socioeconomic rights can be considered as moral rights Argue in favour of a test that socioeconomic claims need to pass in order to be allocated as rights or principles of distributive justice

    Thank you Any further question please contact me at p.espinoza@ucl.ac.uk

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