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Human Rights Without the Human Good?
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Abstract
This chapter presents a response to the previous chapter’s account of liberty rights. Chapter 33 advanced two critical theses about liberty rights: first, liberty rights, no matter how justified, cannot be justified as human rights; and, secondly, liberty rights as understood in the standard way are too weak as liberal rights, and this is shown by a contradiction within the liberal approach to liberty rights in a liberal society. This chapter argues that neither of these theses should be accepted. Nonetheless, there may be serious tensions in the way that modern global justice theorists assemble the deliverances of the liberal tradition when vindicating human rights. These tensions centre on the liberal conception of the human good. It suggests that we would do much better, when vindicating human rights, to draw on strands of liberalism which do not invoke any conception of the human good.
Title: Human Rights Without the Human Good?
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Abstract
This chapter presents a response to the previous chapter’s account of liberty rights.
Chapter 33 advanced two critical theses about liberty rights: first, liberty rights, no matter how justified, cannot be justified as human rights; and, secondly, liberty rights as understood in the standard way are too weak as liberal rights, and this is shown by a contradiction within the liberal approach to liberty rights in a liberal society.
This chapter argues that neither of these theses should be accepted.
Nonetheless, there may be serious tensions in the way that modern global justice theorists assemble the deliverances of the liberal tradition when vindicating human rights.
These tensions centre on the liberal conception of the human good.
It suggests that we would do much better, when vindicating human rights, to draw on strands of liberalism which do not invoke any conception of the human good.
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