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Francis Hutcheson

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The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he has a right thus to act.
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A System of Moral Philosophy : The General Notions of Rights and Laws Explained (1755) Book II, Ch. III

 
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