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The 13 pages that link to Rights, each with the reason it gives.

• UtilitarianismRelated: Rights-based objections challenge sacrificing an individual for a larger total benefit.

• John Stuart MillRelated: Mill explains rights through their contribution to security, a central component of utility.

• Animal rightsNarrower topic: Animal rights apply the broader idea of rights to beings outside the human species.

• ConsequentialismRelated: The tension is whether individual rights can resist being outweighed by aggregate benefit.

• DeontologyRelated: Rights can constrain what may be done to people, regardless of aggregate benefit.

• Jeremy BenthamCompared with: Bentham’s rejection of natural rights exposes a lasting tension between utility and rights-based limits.

• FreedomRelated: Rights can protect the space in which people exercise freedom.

• Ronald DworkinNarrower topic: For Dworkin, individual rights constrain decisions made for collective welfare.

• LibertyRelated: Rights give liberty recognizable claims that can be defended against interference.

• T. H. GreenRelated: Green understands rights through their contribution to shared human development.

• Negative and positive rightsNarrower topic: The distinction divides kinds of rights according to the duties they create.

• Judith Jarvis ThomsonNarrower topic: Thomson analyzes what rights permit and whether a right to life entails aid from others.

• Liberal paradoxRelated: Sen’s formal liberty condition models a limited domain of individual rights within collective choice.