ABSTRACT
The coherence of rights and responsibilities is commonplace in everyday thought and conversation, such as "Consumer Rights and Responsibilities" and "Rights and Responsibilities of Mass Media". Since the 17th century, problems connected with rights have steadily engaged the attention of political and legal philosophers. The role of duties in practical reasoning is seen to be to subject the action of one person to the will or the interests of another. Chungying Cheng also tries to transform theoretic Confucian virtues into human rights in five ways. According to him, the modern West, in developing the notion of rights and duties, comes out of the Aristotelian tradition of virtue ethics, which A. MacIntyre hopes to reclaim. The one-sided rights-based theory is criticized by the Communitarian responsibility-based ethics. Apart from that discussion, East Asian jurisprudents are concerned with building up their own philosophies of rights and responsibilities.
