Majority rule and the definition of rights
Abstract
In contemporary democracies the majority rule is widely accepted ar the only way for reacting decisiour in collective bother and the society at large. This har led to the recognition of a new set of right known as the right to equality, which are in conflict with the fundemantal right to liberty. The solution dictated by the majority rule, as expressed by the righ to equality, are interior to alternative solutior provided by the right to liberty. Society suffers from economic necession, political alienation ad social decadence. In contrast, the righs to liberty -the gennine offspring of natural rights, as the social contray doctrine based on self-interect and the general welfare- are shown to provide the best possible institutial devices for reforming modern society.
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Ευαγγελόπουλος Π. (2015). Majority rule and the definition of rights. Science and Society: Journal of Political and Moral Theory, 1, 69–81. https://doi.org/10.12681/sas.684
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