The Scientific Study of Subjectivity and the Achievement of Human Rights

Abstract

In this address, the possibility and potentiality of enlisting the
scientific study of subjectivity in the cause of achieving human rights
are explored. Reasons for why such study has been rarely undertaken are
described and analyzed. Specific studies are proposed, including
examinations of "self-determination" and the question of the
universality and relativism of human rights. In conclusion, when the
scientific study of subjectivity has been applied systematically to the
problem of achieving human rights, new ground will have been broken in a
most promising and challenging field.