Volume 2, 1999
Metaphysics
Beth J. Singer
Pages 227-235
Philosophic Systems and Systematic Philosophy
Apart from scholarly studies of other philosophers, most of my work in philosophy has been confined to the theory of human rights. I have never tried to develop a system in the sense that, say, Whitehead and Santayana did, yet I think of myself as a systematic philosopher. In what sense can I claim that my theory of what I call “operative rights” and my application of this theory are systematic? Is there a difference between a philosophic system and the systematic treatment of
philosophic topics?