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URB200 Weekly Reflections

“Common Good” and the Permissible Harms of the Market

In his article “How Coronavirus is Shaking Up the Moral Universe”, John Authers discusses how utilitarianism could shape COVID response by highlighting Boris Johnson’s “herd immunity” strategy. Authers calls this “brutally utilitarian”, arguing that while many would die through this …

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URB200 Weekly Reflections

On “Normative and Theoretical Foundations on Human Rights” and “A Hundred Years of Solidarity”

In his chapter “Normative and Theoretical Foundations on Human Rights” Anthony Langlois sets out to explain the philosophical and political frameworks which have established conceptions of individual human rights through rational rights based on Christian Theology in the pre-enlightenment period, …

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URB200 Weekly Reflections

A Reflection on “Native Liberation: The Way Forward” and “One to One with Professor Johanna Fernández”

The assigned resources for this week examine the work of the Young Lords and the more recently organized Red Nation in liberatory projects. Notably, both groups represent people who have experienced large-scale urban migration, largely because colonialist projects have decimated …