Jeremy Waldron Discusses the Concept of Human Rights and Gives and Argument for

Jeremy Waldron Discusses the Concept of Human Rights and Gives and Argument for "Welfare Rights"

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That individuals have rights and that these rights mark important limits on what may be done to them by the state, or in the name of other moral conceptions—this is now a familiar position in modern political philosophy. Of course, the idea is familiar in non-philosophical contexts too. Many countries embody a list of rights in their constitution, proclaiming, for example, that the government will not interfere with the free speech of its citizens, or with their freedom of travel, their sexual privacy, their religious liberty, or their equal access to the law. These Bills of Rights also reflect the importance in the international community of the idea of human rights—the conviction that there are liberties and interests so basic that every society should secure them irrespective of its traditions, history or level of economic development.

Source Publication

Contemporary Moral and Social Issues: An Introduction Through Original Fiction, Discussion, and Readings

Source Editors/Authors

Thomas D. Davis

Publication Date

2014

Jeremy Waldron Discusses the Concept of Human Rights and Gives and Argument for

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