Essay On Cosmopolitanism

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This essay will argue the critical point, that Costas Douzinas does recycle, but he also updates Jeremy Bentham’s early approach to rights, by using a modern day approach to his theory. Both Bentham and Douzinas agreed that rights were created by people with power and are told that they are to protect the people without it . Rights are seen to be a tool that is implemented by the government in order to obtain further power over the everyday citizen. This can be seen when there is a protest of human rights, the everyday citizen protests non-violently, but the violence only invariably comes from the police, or the government when trying to stop these protests.
Further similarities were seen between the two theorists in the way that they agree that rights were “unlimited and unprincipled collection of empty entitlements” . Bentham can be seen as being someone who condemned natural rights altogether, as they do not provide each living individual with liberty. Douzinas can see rights as being something that may implement a great deal into our community, and has a great deal of potentia...

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