Whats Wrong with Rights?
Whats Wrong with Rights? Are natural rights 'nonsense on stilts', as Jeremy Bentham memorably put it? Should the right against torture be absolute, even though the heavens fall? Must the very notion…
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Whats Wrong with Rights?
Are natural rights 'nonsense on stilts', as Jeremy Bentham memorably put it? Should the right against torture be absolute, even though the heavens fall? Must the very notion of a right be individualistic, subverting the common good?
Are rights ethically fundamental, proudly impervious to changing circumstances? Are human rights universal or merely expressions of Western neo-imperial arrogance? Should judges strive to extend the reach of rights from civil Hamburg to anarchical Basra?
Should judicial oligarchies, rather than legislatures, decide controversial ethical issues by inventing novel rights? Ought human rights advocates learn greater sympathy for the dilemmas facing those burdened with government?These are the questions that What's Wrong with Rights? addresses.
In doing so, it draws upon resources in intellectual history, legal philosophy, moral philosophy, moral
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