BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN
VERSION:2.0
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260618T214137Z
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20160818T121500
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20160818T141500
SUMMARY:Human Rights\, Democracy\, and the Conception of Persons as Equals
UID:20260619T112932Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm
TZID:Australia/Melbourne
LOCATION:Old Physics Building\, Melbourne\, Australia\, 3010
DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>Abstract:</strong> The discontinuity thesis about the human right to democracy says that\, although democracy is a requirement of domestic justice\, it cannot plausibly be a requirement of international human rights.&nbsp\; I argue against this thesis and for continuity: the egalitarian argument that shows democracy to be a requirement of domestic justice also pressures us to see democracy as an object of human rights.&nbsp\; I then address powerful worries about recognizing such a right in our current global political world\, e.g.\, about bad-faith or disastrously mismanaged interventions.&nbsp\; I suggest in response a novel model of human rights obligations that challenges the traditional divide between civil and political rights\, on the one hand\, and socioeconomic rights\, on the other.&nbsp\; On this model\, rights (i) requiring institutional reform\; but (ii) subject to empirical uncertainty and resource constraints should be pursued on the model of progressive realization.&nbsp\; Progressive realization is typically associated with socioeconomic rights\, but I argue that distinctions in mode of human rights obligations should be understood to cut across divisions in subject matter.</p>
ORGANIZER:
METHOD:PUBLISH
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR