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Topic: Applying the Rights/Responsibility Lens
- Read an opinion piece in your local newspaper, or a well-known newspaper you regularly read (like the Wall Street Journal or the Washington Post). Find an example of the rights/responsibility lens being applied. How did the author appeal to the right of contract and negative rights? What distinctions were made between rights and equality of opportunity for everyone? How did the writer explore the motives of those making the decisions and taking action?
- Be sure to provide citations and references for all your work, including the newspaper in which you found the article. Also include citations from your text and other sources when analyzing the rights/responsibility lens, the right of contract, and negative rights.
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Running head: THE RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITY LENS
The Rights and Responsibility Lens
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THE RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITY LENS
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The Rights and Responsibility Lens
The rights and responsibility lens focuses on the fundamental values of sensibility and
autonomy. These lens comprehensively captures the theories of Immanuel Kant, Plato, and W.D
Ross, and emphasizes on identifying the ideals that one should seek. Moreover, this rights
responsibility lens begs the question why this choice and centers our attention on our motives,
duties, and reason for acting. Therefore, the primary emphasis is whether or not the principle of
achieving the goal was correct but not of the result or goal is perceived ethical. Moreover, the
presumption that the person is self-managing and self-ware of the...
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