Bentham y los derechos humanos

• Montoya Sáenz, José ^[1]
  1. [1] Universitat de València

     Universitat de València

     Valencia, España

     
• Localización: Telos: Revista iberoamericana de estudios utilitaristas, ISSN-e 2255-596X, ISSN 1132-0877, Vol. 5, Nº. 1, 1996 (Ejemplar dedicado a: La polémica entre John Harsanyi y Amartya Sen.), págs. 1-26
• Idioma: español
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  • Bentham's critical statements on the Declaration of Human Rights of the French revolutionaries are supposed to be merely of historical value, as directed against a dated formulation. Against this, it is argued that the essential point of Bentham's argument is valid against any intuitivist interpretation of human rights (that is, against interpretations that take human rights as ultimate, absolute data) but are agreeable with an interpretation that takes Human Rights to be preferred lines of action that are normally conducive to the greatest general hapiness.