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Category Archives: 3 – Truths
T18 – People Not Peoples – Responses
There was much controversy over this essay. But first, the areas of agreement. Many of you echoed my central concerns over peoples’ rights. Continue reading
T17 – Liberty – A Dangerous Ally Of Human Rights – Responses
I unlocked quite a groundswell of hostility to libertarianism. Federico Burlon was first off. I liked his references to Latin America and also many of his phrases (‘Libertarianism seeks to preserve the status quo to the detriment of the dispossessed’). Continue reading
T17 – Liberty – A Dangerous Ally Of Human Rights
Human rights are about achieveing freedom for all, not protecting it for the few. Continue reading
T13 – Faith Of Our Fathers – Responses
Two questions kept bubbling to the surface in the course of the responses to this track. Continue reading
T13 – Faith Of Our Fathers
Human rights – the child and critical friend of faith Continue reading
T4 – Doing What Comes Naturally – Responses
Paul Bernal is right to call what we have been covering in this track a ‘very very difficult subject’. Where is the truth in human rights? Continue reading
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