Human Rights as Political Demand
Human Rights as Political Demand
Author(s): Romulus BrâncoveanuSubject(s): Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Special Branches of Philosophy
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: Thomas Pogge; institutionalist conception of human rights; Bernand Williams; political realism
Summary/Abstract: In this paper I show that we could read Pogge’s conception of human rights as formulated from a political realist point of view. For such a reading I use as a tool Bernard Williams’ division between political moralism and political realism in political theory and his reformulation of the first political question in Hobbesian terms as that of securing order and the conditions for cooperation in society by using coercion. I conflate Pogge’s theory of human rights with his theory of global justice, and I highlight those elements related to the first political question in Hobbesian terms.
Journal: Диоген
- Issue Year: 24/2016
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 74-84
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English
