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: 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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