Nonsense on Stilts

Rescuing Human Rights in Australia

Omschrijving

The end of human rights? In the eighteenth century, Jeremy Bentham famously described natural rights as nothing more than nonsense on stilts. Almost two centuries later, Bentham's natural rights provided the foundation for human rights. Today, it is less common for human rights to be based on natural rights, but the concern that human rights is at risk of becoming nothing more than nonsense on stilts remains as live as ever. In Nonsense on Stilts, six essayists including the Liberal Party's Tim Wilson and the Labor Party's Terri Butler, respond to Damien Freeman and Catherine Renshaw's proposals for rescuing human rights in Australia. The collection offers a number of perspectives on what it means to recognise and protect human rights in Australian law and politics today.
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Freeman, Damien, Renshaw, Catherine
Titel
Nonsense on Stilts
Uitgever
Connor Court Publishing Pty Ltd
Jaar
2019
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
160
EAN
9781925826685
Bindwijze
Paperback

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