Throughout Maurice Cranston’s “Human Rights, Real and Supposed” he entitles and wants to show how socioeconomic are not human rights. Furthermore, he points out how political and philosophical are in some sort of conflicts to social and economic rights. With his “test of practicability”, Cranston sees it as a useful test to show and tell us, which of the rights are human rights.
Cranston states “What is true of duties is equally true of rights. If it is impossible for a thing to be done, it is absurd to claim it as a right” (Cranston 169-170). With this he applies if one person have the right XY, then this right XY is thinkable and possible for all other individuals. To claim the right, every individual has the needs for human rights. Furthermore
Cranston states “What is true of duties is equally true of rights. If it is impossible for a thing to be done, it is absurd to claim it as a right” (Cranston 169-170). With this he applies if one person have the right XY, then this right XY is thinkable and possible for all other individuals. To claim the right, every individual has the needs for human rights. Furthermore