In
philosophy
Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...
, meta-rights are the
entitlement
Entitled or Entitlement may refer to:
Social sciences and philosophy
* Entitlement (fair division)
* Entitlement program
* Entitlement commodities
* Entitlement (psychology)
In psychology, entitlement mentality is defined as a sense of deserv ...
s of individuals to their
rights
Rights are law, legal, social, or ethics, ethical principles of freedom or Entitlement (fair division), entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people according to some legal sy ...
, including the possibility to
waive
A waiver is the voluntary relinquishment or surrender of some known right or privilege.
A waiver is often written, such as a disclaimer that has been accepted, but it may also be spoken between two or more parties. When the right to hold a p ...
, transfer or sell their rights.
See also
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Ethical subjectivism
Ethical subjectivism (also known as moral subjectivism and moral non-objectivism) is the meta-ethical view which claims that:
#Ethical sentences express propositions.
#Some such propositions are true.
#The truth or falsity of such propositions ...
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Fact–value distinction
The fact–value distinction is a fundamental epistemological distinction described between:
# Statements of fact (positive or descriptive statements), which are based upon reason and observation, and examined via the empirical method.
# Statem ...
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Is–ought problem
The is–ought problem, as articulated by the Scottish philosopher and historian David Hume, arises when one makes claims about what ''ought'' to be that are based solely on statements about what ''is''. Hume found that there seems to be a signif ...
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Meta-ethics
In metaphilosophy and ethics, metaethics is the study of the nature, scope, ground, and meaning of moral judgment, ethical belief, or values. It is one of the three branches of ethics generally studied by philosophers, the others being normativ ...
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Moral realism
Moral realism (also ethical realism) is the position that ethical sentences express propositions that refer to objective features of the world (that is, features independent of subjective opinion), some of which may be true to the extent that t ...
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Normative ethics
Normative ethics is the study of ethics, ethical behaviour and is the branch of Philosophy, philosophical ethics that investigates questions regarding how one ought to act, in a Morality, moral sense.
Normative ethics is distinct from metaethics i ...
References
Concepts in political philosophy
Rights
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