Monday, June 08, 2020
Rights as wrongs
An interesting author by the name of Manent traces the trendy idea of rights back to its source in Hobbes, and notes that
If you teach human beings to assert their rights, but deny any natural standards by which to judge the rightness of their actions, you unleash an endless quest for rights not governed by any intelligible principle—a quest that sows confusion at all levels of society.Manent also suggests some ways to return to a more fruitful political conception.
Labels: history, philosophy, politics
