rights Archives - Michael Ignatieff https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/tag/rights/ Professor, writer, politician Thu, 11 Nov 2021 16:35:09 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://i0.wp.com/michaelignatieff.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-Michael-Ignatieff-website-icon-512x512px.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 rights Archives - Michael Ignatieff https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/tag/rights/ 32 32 217957751 Human Rights and the Ordinary Virtues (Ignatieff Symposium) https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/2019/human-rights-and-the-ordinary-virtues/ Wed, 27 Nov 2019 09:00:00 +0000 https://michaelignatieff.ca/?p=1822 In my book, The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World, I set out to explore what impact human rights have had upon the ordinary virtues. The question I asked was whether human rights has become a global ethic, a standard reference point for moral judgment in ordinary life in cultures around the world.

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]]> 1822 The Return of Sovereignty https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/2012/the-return-of-sovereignty/ Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:00:00 +0000 https://michaelignatieff.ca/?p=1866 Originally published in The New Republic SOVEREIGNTY IS BACK. Our debates about the global economic crisis keep returning to the problem of sovereign […]

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]]> 1866 Needs and justice in the ‘Wealth of Nations’: an introductory essay https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/1983/needs-and-justice-in-the-wealth-of-nations/ Tue, 01 Nov 1983 09:00:00 +0000 https://michaelignatieff.ca/?p=1969 "No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable [...]” — Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations

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