The Ironic Tragedy of Human Rights

Charles Blattberg, PATRIOTIC ELABORATIONS: ESSAYS IN PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY, Chapter 3, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009

18 Pages Posted: 21 Jan 2009 Last revised: 22 Dec 2022

Date Written: December 21, 2022

Abstract

This paper argues that human rights have made mass murder more, rather than less, likely.

(An earlier version appears as chapter 3 of my Patriotic Elaborations: Essays in Practical Philosophy, Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009.)

Keywords: philosophy of human rights, moral motivation, monism, pluralism, Martha Nussbaum, Thomas Pogge, Isaiah Berlin, Bernard Williams

Suggested Citation

Blattberg, Charles, The Ironic Tragedy of Human Rights (December 21, 2022). Charles Blattberg, PATRIOTIC ELABORATIONS: ESSAYS IN PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY, Chapter 3, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1330693

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