But since the 1960’s, the passions expended until then on righting collective wrongs have been increasingly channeled into securing the rights of humans as individuals. Indeed, if the West can be said to have a public philosophy nowadays, it is a philosophy of human rights.
个体权利被20世纪上半叶的恐怖包围着。但自20世纪60年代以来，此前用在纠正集体错误上的热情越来越多地导向了保卫作为个体的人的权利。事实上，如果说如今西方有什么大众哲学的话，那就是关于人权的哲学。