Abstract
My purpose here is to show how rights relate to utilities by showing how they arise from interests. My account will support a classic objection to utilitarianism—that the utilitarian who simply adds and balances utilities on an equal scale cannot generate a plausible analysis of rights. On the other hand, I will maintain that rights are recognized only to protect or guarantee the satisfaction of certain interests. One central claim will be that certain interests must be internally ordered in a nonadditive way, while others are merely added or balanced in sum in deciding moral courses of action or social policy. I will also indicate how different contractarian frameworks generate systems of rights from interests and how priorities among rights can be established by thinking of these different frameworks.
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