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The main thesis of this essay is that human rights, correctly understood, entail a certain communitarian conception of human relationships, one that is characterized by mutuality of consideration and social solidarity. Because such a human grouping is based on human rights, it can appropriately be called a “community of rights”.
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Gewirth, A.R. (1998). The Community of Rights. In: Morscher, E., Neumaier, O., Simons, P. (eds) Applied Ethics in a Troubled World. Philosophical Studies Series, vol 73. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5186-3_13
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