Individual and group rights

The term refers to an individual right in the moral and legal philosophy, a right that belongs to an individual. Examples are an individual's right to freedom of expression and other civil liberties as well as at all the eg up in the Article 1 19 of the German Basic Law formulated rights, but also by other legal provisions enforceable rights such as pension rights. Counter terms are such as social rights, cultural rights, or so-called economic rights, ie, rights whose enforcement is possible only when adequate resources of legal addressees. In debates in practical philosophy is discussed, for example, how individual rights are to be weighted towards a structural point of principle and in specific types of cases of conflict, or as in the conflict between individual rights of two or more persons a preference value judgment is justifiable. Here and beyond is debatable whether individual rights for the normative ethics are fundamental, possibly even as their only basis. Positions, the latter represented, as John Locke and adjoining are referred to and separated from families ethical theories as " libertarianism ", for example, reciprocal obligations ( contractualism ), social roles and ways of life (virtue ethics), supreme moral principles (some deontological theories, such as that of Kant ) or the consequences of action with regard to benefits, Welfare enlargement or preference fulfillment ( utilitarianism ) consider fundamental. A natural law justification of individual rights already developed Hugo Grotius.