THE HISTORY OF REDUCING THE CONCEPT OF RIGHT FROM JUSTICE TO OWNERSHIP

Abstract

This essay recognizes three historical concepts for hagh (=right):
1. Right as truth and justice: There is no difference Here between
theoretical and practical reasoning and everything which is
beautiful or corresponds to the reality is "right" . The good or
beautiful act is exactly a priori (=natural =human) rights. This
concept of right is not born by the will of governmental
authouities.
2. Right as power and profit: according to this concept, arising
from the authority of the state, the right is a privilege rather
than right, and the authority may decide to abate this right as
he has already decided to give this privilege to the citizens.
3. Right as property: the concept of right has gradually been
reduced to the most obvious meaning of profit which is the
private property. We can trace this concept in the thories of
John Lock and Robert Nozick who define justice somehow by
ownership, and the theory of traditional Islamic jurisprudence
which introduces the right as a weak level of the ownewrship.