Nonsense on Stilts: Rescuing Human Rights in Australia - Softcover

Freeman, Damien; Renshaw, Catherine

 
9781925826685: Nonsense on Stilts: Rescuing Human Rights in Australia
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1925826686 ISBN 13: 9781925826685
Publisher: Connor Court Publishing Pty Ltd, 2019

Synopsis

The end of human rights?

In the eighteenth century, Jeremy Bentham famously described natural rights as nothing more than nonsense on stilts. Almost two centuries later, Bentham's natural rights provided the foundation for human rights. Today, it is less common for human rights to be based on natural rights, but the concern that human rights is at risk of becoming nothing more than nonsense on stilts remains as live as ever.

In Nonsense on Stilts, six essayists including the Liberal Party's Tim Wilson and the Labor Party's Terri Butler, respond to Damien Freeman and Catherine Renshaw's proposals for rescuing human rights in Australia. The collection offers a number of perspectives on what it means to recognise and protect human rights in Australian law and politics today.

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Publisher
Connor Court Publishing Pty Ltd
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1925826686
ISBN 13 
9781925826685
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
160