Taking Suffering Seriously

Download or read book Taking Suffering Seriously written by William F. Felice and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1996-08-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking Suffering Seriously examines the evolution and development of the concept of collective human rights in international relations. Focusing on the tension between the rights of the individual member of society and the collective rights of certain groups, Felice argues that the protection of human dignity requires an expansion of our understanding of human rights to include those collective group rights often violated by state and global structures. He advocates a third way, between liberalism and Marxism, to move toward a world in which decision-making is based on norms of meeting basic human needs and true equality.