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    Mill's conception of rights presupposes a hierarchy of va... — Carmelics
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    Mill's conception of rights presupposes a hierarchy of values in which some kinds of goods are superior to others

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    • 1.Mill's doctrine of higher pleasures treats the possession and use of capacities for practical deliberation as higher-order goods
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    • 2.A doctrine that ranks some goods as higher-order entails a hierarchy of values
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    • 1.Mill's higher pleasures doctrine ranks qualities of experience, not types of goods, leaving the structure of rights grounded in equal human dignity.
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    • 2.A qualitative distinction among pleasures is compatible with a flat, non-hierarchical theory of rights if all persons equally possess the relevant capacities.
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    • 1.Rawls and Hart argue Mill's rights function as side-constraints protecting security, not as entitlements distributed according to ranked goods.
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    • 2.If rights protect a single paramount interest—security—rather than a spectrum of ranked goods, no hierarchy of values need be presupposed.
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    This conception of rights presupposes a hierarchy of values in which some kinds of goods are superior to others. We know that Mill accepts a hierarchy of values from his doctrine of higher pleasures. That doctrine treats the possession and use of capacities for practical deliberation as higher-order goods. Various liberties of thought and action are important as necessary conditions for realizing these higher-order goods.
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