Rights & Recognition with David Utsler

Are there any prerequisites for claiming a right or liberty? Vexation over personal liberties may be caused by a fundamental misunderstanding about what a right is and how it works. Dr. David Utsler (North Central College, Texas) discusses how our identities are formed by the environment and how recognition of individual identities is a key requirement for possessing rights and liberties.

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Hermeneutics in Real Life

Links Related to this Episode:
David Utsler (Discursive Dialectics)
David’s Blog on Rights

Hermeneutics
International Association for Environmental Philosophy (IAEP)
Politics and the Other (Blog by Clarissa Muller)

Robert Figueroa
Hans Georg-Gadamer
Axel Honneth
Richard Kearney
Emmanuel Levinas
Paul Ricoeur

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