Rights

Legal and Moral

Rights
 Rights
 The rights are essential for
development of human personality and
for human happiness. Rights are the
necessary conditions for the personal ,
social, economic, political, mental and
moral development of individuals.
 Rights
 Rights are the social requirement of a
social man for the development of his
personality and society at large.

• Rights are the legal, social or ethical

principles of freedom or entitlement,
that is, rights are the fundamental. It is
allowed of people.
 Two
Classification of
Rights.
 Legal:- Civil,
Political ,
Economical,
Social, Cultural.
 Legal Rights
• Legal rights are based on a society's
customs, laws, statutes or actions by
legislatures. Legal rights are
sometimes called civil rights or
statutory rights and are culturally and
politically relative since they depend
on a specific societal context to have
meaning.
 Legal Rights
 Legal rights are further
divided into three
categories, namely civil
rights, political rights and
economic rights
 Civil Rights
 Civil rights: They are those rights
without which no civilized life is
possible. Civilized life is impossible
under the fear of being hurt, attacked,
killed or our property confiscated.
 Political Rights
 They are those rights which enable the
people to have a share in the
administration of the country.
 Economic Rights
 Economic rights: Political and civil
rights are meaningless unless some
economic rights are guaranteed.
Economic rights are the right to work,
the right to adequate wages and right
to reasonable hours of work. These
economic conditions are very essential
for the economic and political progress
of man.
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 Civil Rights
1. Right to life
2. Right to persona liberty / freedom.
3. Right to security.
4. Right to privacy.
5. Right to home
6. Right to own property.
7. Right to freedom from torture.
8. Right to freedom from inhuman
treatment.
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• Political Rights
1. Right to thought
2. Right to religion
3. Right to freedom of movement.
4. Right to participate in the
Government.
5. Right to vote.
6. Right to be elected in election.
7. Right to take part in the conduct of
public office.
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 Economic, social & cultural Rights
1. Right to adequate food , clothing
& housing.
2. right to adequate standard of
living.
3. Right to freedom from hunger.
4. Right to work.
5. Right to social security.
6. Right to education.
 Moral Rights
 Moral rights are related to the
individual sense of conviction. They
depend on the ethical standards of the
community.

 Moral rights are largely based on

religious belief and the moral
conceptions of the people in any
society. Therefore , they differ from
society to society . They arise out of
man's moral sense.