Michael Walzer

Michael Walzer is a leading American philosopher and had been on a quest throughout many years of his life for a more just society and how exactly that can be achieved. The lecture I went to that Michael Walzer spoke at was known as "Beyond Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights in a Global Society." What I got out of this lecture was that global human rights are a limited set of rights aimed at protecting the people against things such as ethnic cleansing and mass murder. He talks about how the state should interevene, usually military if needed, if the people are suffering from things such as mass murder and even famine, Salzer explains.