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From Human Rights to Cosmic Context: Rethinking Universality in an Evolutionary Universe

BLB 15, December 2025

For decades, “universal human rights” have been treated as moral bedrock: timeless, self-evident entitlements belonging to every human simply by virtue of being human. Philosophers like David N. Stamos have challenged this picture, arguing that if we take evolutionary biology seriously, we find no such innate, equal, universal rights inscribed…