Human Rights as Political Demand

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Abstract:

In this paper I show that we could read Pogge’s conception of human rights as formulated from a political realist point of view. For such a reading I use as a tool Bernard Williams’ division between political moralism and political realism in political theory and his reformulation of the first political question in Hobbesian terms as that of securing order and the conditions for cooperation in society by using coercion. I conflate Pogge’s theory of human rights with his theory of global justice, and I highlight those elements related to the first political question in Hobbesian terms.

Keywords:

Thomas Pogge, institutionalist conception of human rights, Bernand Williams, political realism.

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