The life of Rights is the Middle Sphere of the Threefold Social Organism. It's the section that regulates the tendencies that come from the other two spheres. It's made up of contracts that determine the acceptability of actions, and that conform to our sense of justice and human decency.

For Plato, the essence of justice is the impulse toward self-regulation. Justice, for Plato, comes down to minding your own business and not interfering with other people. Plato thinks this impulse is regulated in the heart through something called thumos or thumoiedes, which resides in the chest and which is variously interpreted as 'self-respect,' 'self-assertion,' 'pugnacity,' indignation,' and 'anger.' It is also sometimes rendered as 'spirit.'

Plato expresses some doubt as to whether or not 'spirit' is a function in the human being separate from craving and appetite on the one hand, seated in the belly, and reason, seated in the head. He rather quickly concludes, however, that the spirit indeed is a function distinct from these other two, and identifies it with feeling. He then goes on to describe how the Guardians of the Republic need to be indoctrinated to feel a love for the State, and to take actions only on behalf of the community as a whole.

In our day, the middle sphere has settled around contracts and the law of contract. Contracts bestow on their signatories if not equal at least commensurate rights under law. The middle sphere is thus the sphere of social equality.

In anthroposophical conversation, the middle sphere is expressed in an extremely forthright way. In anthroposophical conversation, universal reproducibility of content is the basic rule of attitude. Everyone is equally entitled to an anthroposophical conversation, and without everyone's equal participation in each conversational moment, the conversation simply doesn't rise to the level of Community. In this way, anthroposophical conversation is regulated by the weakest link in the chain of conversational capacity. For this reason, anthroposophical conversation resembles an Hellenic Republic less than it does a Jewish or Judeo-Christian tabernacle, although the Hellenic model is not without relevance.