Stephen Shute
Auteur van On Human Rights (Oxford Amnesty Lectures)
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I had not read much Rorty before, so was surprised to find him arguing that rights should depend not on reasoning about what it means to be this thing called "human" but upon appeals to the feelings of those in power. That's a weak basis to tell any disadvantaged group that they have only as much as those in power are inclined to give them. Apparently there is no human nature, and thus we are infinitely malleable in what we will tolerate and recognize, and what progress is made is accomplished only by having a good PR campaign: "the emergence of the human rights culture seems to owe nothing to increased moral knowledge, and everything to hearing sad and sentimental stories." There is a certain truth that sad stories create an opening, but they do not provide a reason, and that is why, despite being awash in sad stories, bigotry, prejudice and apathetic dismissal to the conditions of others endures.… (meer)