Category: Rights
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Conference, ‘Faithful to the Call: Renewing Theological Ethics from the Ground Up’
The 2022 McDonald Centre Annual Conference was hosted in May. The presentations featured at the conference are now available on YouTube. See the playlist for the ‘Faithful to the Call: Renewing Theological Ethics from the Ground Up’ conference event here. Alternatively, see links to the following sessions below: McDonald Distinguished Lecture SeriesProfessor Oliver O’Donovan: “Statues”Professor Nigel Biggar: ‘”Honour…
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Politics at the Cross+Roads
Nigel Biggar joined Simeon Burke for his podcast, Politics at the Cross+Roads. The conversation between Biggar and Burke ranged in scope, including discussions about duties and rights during the pandemic, thoughts concerning Christianity and the nation, and the importance of realism in moral and political theology. You can view the interview at YouTube here. Moreover, you can find…
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Policy Exchange to Launch ‘What’s Wrong with Rights?’
Policy Exchange is hosting a virtual book launch to acknowledge the publication of Nigel Biggar’s What Wrong with Rights? Biggar will be joined by Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve (former Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission), Lord Sumption (former Justice of the Supreme Court) and John Larkin QC (former Attorney General for Northern Ireland). The book launch…
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Reviews of ‘What’s Wrong with Rights?’
Updated 15 June 2021 In What’s wrong with rights? (OUP, 2020) Nigel Biggar addresses questions about the legitimacy of ‘rights’-talk in its various forms—natural, moral, legal, universal, and absolute. He concludes that such talk obscures the importance of fostering civic virtue, corrodes military effectiveness, subverts the democratic legitimacy of law, proliferates publicly onerous rights, and undermines its own authority and…
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What’s Wrong with Rights?
Nick Spencer is Senior Fellow at Theos and host of thepodcast Reading Our Times. In a November 2020 podcast, Spencer speaks with Nigel Biggar about his new book, What’s Wrong with Rights? (OUP, 2020). To find the conversation between Nick Spencer and Nigel Biggar, click here. You can also find the Reading Our Times podcast at Apple, Spotify, or Deezer.
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Rights Fundamentalism Has No Place in Judicial Interpretation
In the 12 October 2020 Comment for The Times, Nigel Biggar reasons with concern for the way the Strasbourg court has viewed military operations overseas. Challenging the ruling that “what applies in peacetime Birmingham also applies in anarchical Basra,” Biggar argues that rights must be applied prudentially with reference both to the context and by measure rather…
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What’s the Problem with Natural Rights?
On 1 April 2017, Nigel Biggar delivered the conference paper, “What’s the problem with natural rights?” (see video below). The conference, “What are natural rights?”, was hosted by the Catholic Centre at NYU and the Thomistic Institute (Washington, D.C.) at New York University. A complete playlist of conference lectures can be found here. Biggar’s lecture can serve as a prelude to…
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What’s the Problem with Rights?
Earlier this year, Prof Nigel Biggar delivered a lecture titled ‘What’s the Problem with Rights?’ to audience at the prestigious Thomistic Instituteof the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC. An audio recording of the address is available to listen to here.
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Conference: ‘What’s Wrong with Rights?’
McDonald Centre Annual Conference, 2015 How absolute are rights? Should they always trump other moral considerations? Does it help to distinguish statutory rights from natural ones? Are rights necessarily bound up with radical individualism? Can they do justice to the proper claims of the common good? Should Christians support them or repudiate them? How do…
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Charlie Hebdo: Legal vs Moral Rights
The London Times recently published a letter from the Director of the McDonald Centre relating to the aftermath of the terrorist attack in Paris on January 7.