THE VIDEO SHELF · critique of human rights
The Problem With Human Rights
A philosophy video critiquing the concept of human rights from a Marxist perspective, drawing on Locke, Marx, Nietzsche, Hegel and Rawls. It examines what human rights actually mean and presuppose.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters recommend it as a deeper philosophical look at human rights from a critical Marxist angle.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Jonas Čeika - CCK Philosophy
- Topic
- critique of human rights
- Format
- commentary
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2024
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From the original HN conversations
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No, the entire conception of rights is tied to liberalism, and itself is not the end of human moral ideology. Rights are good compromises: If we all broadly agree that humans are entitled to some right R, then R will become a social institution which …
Kednicma on Hacker News · 2020-08
In “Time of the Magicians” – philosophy's great decade?That was a rhetorical question I suppose, in the sense of "whose definition is supposedly the universal one": Jonas Čeika has philosophical deep dive [0] into the topic of human rights worth watching. [0] [VIDEO]
jedimind on Hacker News · 2021-11
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