The Nature of Rights

Bill Glod

Bill Glod has devoted his career to defending individual liberty and building scholarly networks. Alongside respected philosophy journals, his work criticizing paternalism in government was published in his 2020 Routledge book Why It’s OK to Make Bad Choices. As program officer at the Institute for Humane Studies from 2009 to 2023, he oversaw faculty mentorship programming, organized scholarly events, and managed a fellowship with a one-​million-​dollar annual budget. Bill currently works as a freelance author, contributing essays to outlets like the Online Library of Liberty and Liberal Currents.

Dr. Bill Glod explores the origin and character of rights. In this lecture, he explains two approaches that philosophers use to derive rights, consequential and deontological, and examines the ability of each perspective to provide a strong argument for rights.

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