Nancy Fraser says that to understand what a just system is we need to first experience or witness injustice. That is what this week’s chapter reminds me of, well, it also brought to my mind a lot of newspaper articles and news I’ve been bombarded with throughout my entire life. The problem of the drugContinue reading “Week 12 | “From whom do we demand justice?””
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Human Rights have been hailed as humanity’s last-standing hope (Samuel Moyn, The Last Utopia, 2010). They are ambitious in potential and broad in scope. Yet, as has been iterated by Prof. Beaseley-Murray in this week’s lecture, the remain “far from ‘self-evident.’” This is because rights are a discourse, not an absolute (expressed by Ronald Dwarkin: “rights as trumps”). Instead, rights must be understood as needing weighing, not hierarchizing (Pildes, The Structural Conception of Rights and Judicial Balancing, 2002). As such rights discourse holds no inherent morality, instead morality must be…read more
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