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Human Rights: A Modest Proposal

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Author(s)
Byron, Michael
Keywords
Human rights
Justification
Pragmatism
Consequentialism
Transcendentalism

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/59447
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http://hdl.handle.net/10077/5226
Abstract
Human rights have become an enormously useful tool in our time, and this for a variety of reasons. Useful, yes: but are rights real? I propose first to examine the most significant philosophical attempts to justify human rights. A universally justified conception of rights I call ‘robust,’ since a successful rational justification would fully underwrite the real existence of rights. Alas, we have no such justification; the second part of my remarks sketches devastating objections to each proposed justification. But all is not lost for rights: a new pragmatic justification for rights talk is available, one that is modest. On the modest view rights are real; but then we should like to know whether rights are as useful as they are on the robust view. Not as useful, no; but a
Date
2011-09-08
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Articolo
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oai:www.openstarts.units.it:10077/5226
Michael Byron, "Human Rights: A Modest Proposal", in: Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics, XI (2009) 1, pp. 470-494.
1825-5167
http://hdl.handle.net/10077/5226
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