Eudaimonist Virtue Ethics and Individual Rights: Investigating the View of Douglas B. Rasmussen and Douglas J.Den Uyl

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Shahid beheshti university

2 shahid beheshti. faculty of law, Tehran, Iran

10.29252/jlr.2021.184529.1513

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One of the readings of virtue ethics is eudaimonist virtue ethics. Explaining the human flourishing features and emphasizing the necessity of self-direction, Rasmussen and Den Uyl state that the approach of Aristotelian virtue ethics may be considered as a foundation for individual rights and, then, as the main basis for a liberal neutral minimal state. They consider individual rights as a meta-normative principle, because it is associated with the creation and justification of a political-legal ground that has been ensured and provided the possibility of pursuit of human flourishing. To criticize this view, it should be stated that it has a consequentialist approach despite this theory emphasizes presenting a virtue ethics-based theory of the rights with a neo-Aristotelian approach and it is not sufficiently based on the Aristotelian view. Rasmussen and Den Uyl try to introduce human flourishing as a determinant factor for justifying individual rights, but, they don’t introduce any virtue as a basis and source of Human Rights.

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  • Receive Date: 21 December 2019
  • Revise Date: 18 July 2021
  • Accept Date: 16 November 2021

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