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Natural Rights And Individual Sovereignty, Siegfried Van Duffel
Natural Rights And Individual Sovereignty, Siegfried Van Duffel
Siegfried Van Duffel
Can we have a moral right to do things that are immoral? Some people have said "Yes", but others have vehemently denied the same. This paper argues how such an idea could have developed out of a completely different one.
Libertarian Natural Rights, Siegfried Van Duffel
Libertarian Natural Rights, Siegfried Van Duffel
Siegfried Van Duffel
Libertarianism relies on a natural rights theory, which takes the idea of individual sovereignty as basic. The theory is flawed because it cannot ground an obligation for different sovereigns to respect each other's sovereignty.
How To Study Human Rights And Culture (...Without Becoming A Relativist), Siegfried Van Duffel
How To Study Human Rights And Culture (...Without Becoming A Relativist), Siegfried Van Duffel
Siegfried Van Duffel
Arguing for the existence of a non-trivial link between culture and human rights does not commit the author to relativism or a simplistic notion of culture.