Document Type
Working Paper
Publication Date
1-7-2016
SSRN Discipline
Legal Scholarship Network; Law School Research Papers - Legal Studies; Law & Society eJournals; International Law & Trade eJournals; LSN Subject Matter eJournals; Public International Law eJournals
Abstract
Are human rights expanding over time Christopher Stone Peter Singer and many others hold that they are and that this is a good thing In a famous article and book Stone points out that in early times human beings recognized rights only for members of their immediate family or clan Gradually our circle of concern expanded to include members of other clans then foreigners women Jews and other races Stone writes that we will eventually come to endow natural objects such as rocks trees fish and rivers with rights so that one day the entire natural environment will receive protection in its own right and not merely because this will benefit humanity More recent writing explains what propels this expansion in human consciousness including recent work suggesting that fiction and vicarious experience can play key roles
Recommended Citation
Richard Delgado,
Watching the Opera in Silence: Disgust, Autonomy, and the Search for Universal Human Rights,
(2016).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/fac_working_papers/428