Questions on PHF, Chapter 7:  "Human Rights"

1.  What main question does this chapter try to answer?

2.  What is the relationship on 106 between human rights, human ends/purposes, and human nature?  How would you DRAW the relationship?

3.  What is the relationship on 107 between “procreative liberty” and “ethical individualism”?

4.  What is the relationship between rights, needs, and interests (108-10)?

5.  Why is the utilitarian approach problematic (108-09)?

6.  What 3 sources of rights does F propose?  What are the problems with each view?  Which one does he favor?

7.  Why is the naturalistic fallacy fallacious?

8.  Why does Hume believe that the naturalistic hypothesis is a fallacy?

9.  What is F's position on nature?

10. How does F reply to Hume's objection?

11. How does F reply to the second objection? 

12.  What does F believe are the origin and nature of human rights?

13. What does this chapter have to do with biotechnology and genetic engineering?