Is there an '-ism' for 'human rights'?
Capitalism means a view that gives priority to capital and has capital as its pivotal notion.
Nationalism means a view that gives priority to what is national and has national as its pivotal notion.
Racism means a view or attitude that emphasises people's race and has race as its pivotal notion.
______ means a view that gives priority to rights and has human rights as its pivotal notion.
What can one put in the blank above? The 'rights' in question is taken in the sense of (moral or legal) entitlement, as in 'one has a right to ...' or 'one's rights are violated', 'human rights', etc.
So the question is what to call a view that emphasises 'rights' in the above sense, a view that says 'rights' are the most important thing in some debates, a view in which 'rights' are the most central concept.
Is there any term for such a view, approach, or school of thought? If not, what description could be used for it?
According to Wikibooks :Ideologies of Government which lists the fifteen forms of Political Ideology incorporated into, or postulated of, Governments, the one which is closest, I would say, to your definition of :
a view that gives priority to right and has right as its pivotal notion.
. . is Classical Liberalism.
Wikibooks classifies this as :
Including natural rights [...] articulated the rights of those outside the traditional power structure to freedom from arbitrary rule ...