Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xii + 251 ... in the third chapter Benhabib positions herself as an advocate of porous borders. Seyla Benhabib: Sometimes I wonder myself why I don’t just talk about open borders. The basis for this right Therefore care must be taken that everybody belongs to a society. In her book The Rights of Others: Aliens, Residents, and Citizens, she argues for a moral universalism and advocates porous borders. Seyla Benhabib (born September 9, 1950) is a Turkish-American philosopher. Ironically, as the political influence of human rights has grown, their philosophical justification has become ever more controversial. Seyla Benhabib, born in Istanbul, Turkey, is the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University. In her Seeley Lectures, the distinguished political theorist Seyla Benhabib makes a powerful plea, echoing Immanuel Kant, for moral universalism and cosmopolitan federalism. This work discusses the unprecedented challenges that the movement of peoples across national borders poses for the people involved as well as for the places to which they travel and their countries of origin. Seyla Benhabib (/ ˈ s eɪ l ə ˌ b ɛ n h ə ˈ b iː b / born September 9, 1950) is a Turkish-American philosopher. *
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