Human rights and the diversity of value

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 15 (4):395-406 (2012)
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This paper argues that the independence from intercultural disagreement, that Peter Jones attributes to human rights, implies that those rights are best understood as modelled on the Will Theory of rights and are derived from each person’s foundational right to equal (negative) freedom.

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10.1080/13698230.2012.699395

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Anarchy, State, and Utopia.Robert Nozick - 1974 - New York: Basic Books.
The law of peoples.John Rawls - 1999 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Edited by John Rawls.
A theory of justice.John Rawls - 2009 - In Steven M. Cahn (ed.), Exploring ethics: an introductory anthology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 133-135.

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