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Contemporary Moral Problems
Book Review Chapter 1: Ethical Theories:
Joel Feinberg: The Nature and Value of Rights
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Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Contemporary-Moral-Problems-James-White/dp/0534584306/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233793391&sr=8-1

Quote: “”Doctrine of the logical correlativity of rights and duties””
I choose this statement because I think this is like the doctrine of all duties that is involves the others people right and attitude. This will connect to the all rights that is involves on the others people duties. Meaning they are connected to each other with return they will get each other benefits because they are linked together this may result a better understanding on rights and duties for every people in the world that they think duties is not important thing.
Learning Expectation:
• I want to know who the author of the book is.
• I want to know what is the meaning of value rights
• I want to know what the connection of nature and rights is.
• If this theories are applicable in our present day.
• I want to know if this topic is related to the human behavior which gives a better understanding in life.
Review:
To start my review let discuss first a brief introduction about the author of the book. The author is Joel Feinberg he is a professor of philosophy at the University of Arizona. As a philosopher he make different book in philosophy including Doing and Deserving, Social Philosophy, the moral Limits of the criminal law and freedom and fulfillment.
He is a philosopher who wants to share and demonstrate that the rights are morally important to person. He has undergo in different scenario which he imagines that a world like people do not have rights. And the result of this is people who do not have rights are people who cannot make any moral claims. And deprive of self respect and human dignity.
To begin this chapter focus on how the doctrine of the logical correlativity rights and duties are connected, and this doctrine will explain and elaborate according to the connection of human duties for themselves.
What I’ve learned:
• I learned who is the author of the book
• I learned what is rights and its value
• I learned the connection of duties to the people with rights.
• That this study is happening now in present day.
• I learned that in order for you to have a great thing in life you should deserve on what you want.
Questions:
1. Is it good if you get special or valuable even if you don’t deserve it?
2. All around the people know what is the meaning of Value of rights?
3. Do you think majority of the community agree with on this topic?
4. Who is the author of the book?
5. What is the meaning of Value of Rights?
Citation: (James E. White, St. Cloud State University, 2003)

Review Question:
Describe Nowheresville. How is this world different from our world?
This is a beginning of the true send of duty to be more purpose and responsible for any action that we made, this is different because duties are allowable with any action as long you have the rights.
Explain the doctrine of the logical correlativity of right and duties. What is Feinberg’s position on this doctrine?
This are the doctrine that all duties are involve which require other people believes and rights. Other duties intend to show that we used action when they feel to do that action; this is like an extensive but lacking in originality usage.

How does Feinberg explain the concept of personal desert? How would personal desert work in Nowheresville?
This will work by giving the right decision to the people by giving them an exact amount of care and providing a rights to the community when a people deserves to have right.
Explain the notion of a sovereign right-monopoly. How would this work in Nowheresville according to Feinberg?
This will work because this is the right to control this is like controlling the right of other people so that this is not good to implement.
What are claim-rights? Why does Feinberg think they are morally important?
These are the different opinion of the people which is connected to the right of a person which intend to make a connection between the rights and the people who affected it is like a petition to have a correct and equal distribution of right.