Cinco teorías sobre el concepto de los derechos
ISSN: 0214-8676, 2386-4702
Ano de publicación: 2009
Número: 32
Páxinas: 665-686
Tipo: Artigo
Outras publicacións en: Doxa: Cuadernos de Filosofía del Derecho
Resumo
This article analyzes five theories that deal with the concept of rights: the Will Theory, the Interest Theory and three more recent theories which have revitalized the debate on this matter, G. Rainbolt’s Justified Constraint Theory, L. Wenar’s Several Function Theory and G. Sreenivasan’s Hybrid Theory. The first three ones are considered to be simple for presupposing that rights have a homogeneous reference and, therefore, a unique concept is possible for all the cases of rights. The last ones, for the opposite reasons, are complex. Finally I set out some considerations about the proliferation of rights and also about the historical dimension of the phenomenon that favour a complex approach instead of a simple one.