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DESCRIPTION:CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY\, Henry F. Hall Building\, room H-1220\, 1
 455 De Maisonneuve W.\, Montreal\, Quebec H3G 1M8\nPhilosophy Lecture Seri
 es talk with Jiewuh Song\, Post-doctoral Fellow\, Yale University\, organi
 zed by the 91ºÚÁÏÍø Centre for Human Rights & Legal Pluralism\, and the Depa
 rtment of Political Science of Concordia University.\nDr Song holds a Ph.D
 . in Philosophy (2013) and a J.D. (2006)\, both from Harvard University. H
 er research interests cover political philosophy\, philosophy of law\, int
 ernational law\, and normative ethics.\nAbstract\nProfessor Song will argu
 e for a human right to democracy. She understands this right as offering\,
  in a way that is consistent with understanding persons as equals\, (i) an
  institutional safeguard against threats to basic interests in political p
 articipation\; and (ii) a solution to the problem of coordinating diverse 
 political opinions.  Her argument issues from a general account of human r
 ights as including in their content a conception of persons as equals.  It
  is thus also a rejection of what she calls the discontinuity thesis\, or 
 the influential view that democracy is robustly egalitarian in a way that 
 human rights are not.  She argues that the considerations to which propone
 nts of the discontinuity thesis appeal—about political obligation\, self-d
 etermination\, and toleration—fail to make the thesis persuasive.\n
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SUMMARY:Human Rights\, Democracy\, and the Conception of Persons as Equals
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 ception-persons-equals-240699
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