Hostname: page-component-7bb8b95d7b-495rp Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-09-07T11:20:50.127Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Mervyn Frost replies to Peter Sutch's ‘Human rights as settled norms: Mervyn Frost and the limits of Hegelian human rights theory’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2000

Abstract

Peter Sutch's article offers an excellent overview of the constitutive theory of individuality which I developed in Ethics in International Relations. Sutch offers a lucid expository section which is followed by a series of criticisms of the theory. These (taken together with others I have encountered) require of me that I sharpen and restate my argument in crucial ways. I welcome this opportunity to do so. What follows is not just a defence of the original argument but an elaboration of it. My comments fall under four headings:

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2000 British International Studies Association

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)