A Critical Assessment Of A Moral Foundation Of Human Rights: A Bentham’s Perspective

Abstract

This paper critically analyse Bentham’s ideas of human rights from the perspectives of select thinkers to examine whether they accommodate a moral foundation of human rights. In the critical analysis, we aim to determine first whether Bentham is correctly attributed with the idea of human rights in their writings and second, whether it is possible to infer particular human rights such as the right to freedom, the right to well-being, and the right to equality from his writings.