BU490 Business Ethics – Assignment 4

Your response should be two (2)
single-spaced pages.
Respond to the items below.
1. Define the following: a right, a legal right, a moral right, a human right.
How are they related?
2. What three (3) features define a moral right?
3. How do we know that people have rights? What is the basis of the moral
rights according to a utilitarian view? According to Immanuel Kant?
4. Fully discuss the idea that human beings have a “natural right” to
liberty and a “natural right” to private property, as claimed by John
Locke (1632-1704).