Abstract: As I have argued from the beginning of this book, talk of human rights means something quite different when one believes that human rights are natural as opposed to being conventional. In the first case, human rights would apply to all people on earth from the time (at least) of the appearance of Homo sapiens until they become extinct or until they cease to be essentially rational/emotive creatures who primarily seek to act in order to realize their vision of what is good. As we have seen in Chapters 2 and 3, much of the historical understanding of morality, justice, and some shared community worldview (that is at least consistent with human rights) has been viewed in just this way in Europe and in China (emblematic of the West and the East). This chapter explores this and other ontological issues as they affect my general argument.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-08-11
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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