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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/evolution-rights/
SUMMARY:The Evolution of Rights
DESCRIPTION:\n	Zhu Wanrun (Associate Professor\, Political Science Departme
 nt\, Jilin University\; Visiting Scholar\, Harvard-Yenching Institute)\n	C
 hair/discussant: Thomas Scanlon (Alford Professor of Natural Religion\, Mo
 ral Philosophy\, and Civil Polity\, Emeritus\, Harvard University)\n\n\n	O
 ur time is an “Age of Rights” where the discourse of rights plays a pr
 edominant role in every aspect of social life. As a focus of political phi
 losophy for centuries\, there is a vast literature on rights\, most of it 
 being normative studies. Here we take another approach: game theory. Since
  the 1970s until now\, scholars have been trying to formalize rights into 
 game terms\, but have not yet succeeded. As a first step\, a new method to
  formalize rights will be tried and tested. With this newly available form
 alization\, we can apply the rich literature in game theory to shed some l
 ight on the study of rights. Specifically\, three interrelated questions l
 ie at the center of our inquiry:\n\n	\n		Can rights emerge among egoists w
 ithout a central authority through the evolutionary process?\n	\n		If yes\
 , how stable can rights be?\n	\n		Is there a way to maintain rights at a m
 inimal cost?\n
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