http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/uci_libs_rorty_humanrights/rss Recent eScholarship items from Rorty and Human Rights Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:06:34 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2127z5b4 <p>Human rights are often thought to be "natural" in the sense that human beings possess them independently of any human agreements or social conventions. One's humanity itself and that alone is supposed to ground such rights. Clearly this supposition stands in need of justification. Rorty believes that it cannot be justified. In his view there are no morally relevant "transcultural facts". Thus the transcultural fact of one's humanity cannot ground human rights. Nonetheless, he believes, we should welcome and promote what Eduardo Rabossi refers to as our "human rights culture", which works to counteract the kind of dehumanization that often accompanies the maltreatment of some human beings by others.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2127z5b4 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Gilbert, Margaret