Amartya Sen’s Idea of Justice, Human Rights, and the Challenge of Bentham
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The lecture focused on Amartya Sen's ambitious, full theory of human rights and his attempt to refute the criticisms of Jeremy Bentham, who denounced wild natural rights claims as "nonsense on stilts." I argue that Sen's efforts fail, and that Bentham remains relevant to understanding the weak foundations of contemporary human rights theory.
