Human Rights versus Corporate Rights: Life Value, the Civil Commons and Social Justice

Authors

  • John McMurtry University of Guelph

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v5i1.991

Keywords:

social justice, value, life value, commons, capabilities, globalization

Abstract

This analysis maps the deepening global crisis and the principles of its resolution by life-value analysis and method. Received theories of economics and justice and modern rights doctrines are shown to have no ground in life value and to be incapable of recognizing universal life goods and the rising threats to them. In response to this system failure at theoretical and operational levels, the unifying nature and measure of life value are defined to provide the long-missing basis for understanding the common interest, human rights and social justice—that is, the universal life necessities of humanity across cultures and the evolving civil commons infrastructures to ensure them. In contrast, the treaty-imposed corporate rights system miscalled “globalization” is structured to predate life means and support systems at all levels with no accountability beyond itself. Only the logic of life value, human rights and life-protective law, it is concluded, can comprehend or govern this inherently life-blind and cumulatively eco-genocidal regime.

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Published

2011-07-21

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2011): Life Value and Social Justice

Section

Thematic Articles

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