Archive for September, 2009

Why the concept of “human rights” is no good

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Most philosophy students and academics have become so habituated to thinking about morality in terms of rights that a “denial of moral rights” sounds to them like a rejection of morality itself. If you read what follows, please resist that thought. To understand why I reject the idea of “human rights”, or any other variant [...]