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    Human Rights without Objective Intrinsic Value
    with VĂ­ctor Cantero-Flores
    Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics 21 (1): 10-27. 2019.
    The current predominant conception of human rights implies that human beings have objective intrinsic value. In this paper, we defend that there is no satisfactory justification of this claim. In spite of the great variety of theories aimed at explaining objective intrinsic value, all of them share one common problematic feature: they pass from a non-evaluative proposition to an evaluative proposition by asserting that a certain entity has intrinsic value in virtue of having certain non-evaluati…Read more