Archive for the ‘Philosophy’ Category

Does Mars have Value?

Saturday, February 4th, 2012

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How we got Rights

Sunday, December 19th, 2010

In a review (“Utopia Lost” Democracy #19, 2011) of The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History by Samuel Moyn (Harvard University Press, 2010) Yehudah Mirsky begins by noting that “many claim that these rights have a long ancestry in the history of human thought” and that Moyn’s preliminary historical survey shows ...