Defending human dignity and human rights

Abstract

I am very grateful to Christian Barry, Michael Blake, Adam Etinson, and Cristina Lafont for their essays on Human Dignity and Human Rights. I admire and have learnt from their own philosophical work (See, e.g. Barry and Reddy 2008; Barry and Øverland 2016; Blake 2013; Etinson 2013, 2018; Lafont 2010, forthcoming), and it is indeed a great honor and a challenge to reply to their thoughtful comments on my book. I intend my (necessarily short) replies as part of what will hopefully be an ongoing conversation to sharpen and improve our views about human rights and social justice.