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Author | : Adam Etinson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 519 |
Release | : 2018-03-09 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 019253808X |
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Over the past decade or so, philosophical speculation about human rights has tended to fall into two streams. On the one hand, there are "Orthodox" theorists, who think of human rights as natural rights: moral rights that we have simply in virtue of being human. On the other hand, there are "Political" theorists, who think of human rights as rights that play a distinctive role, or set of roles, in modern international politics: setting universal standards of political legitimacy, serving as norms of international concern, and/or imposing limits on the exercise of national sovereignty. This edited volume explores this disagreement, its underlying sources, and related issues in the philosophy of human rights. Using the Orthodox-Political debate as a springboard for broader reflection, the volume covers a diverse range of questions about: the relevance of the history of human rights to their philosophical comprehension; how to properly understand the relationship between human rights morality and law; how to balance the normative character of human rights - their description of an ideal world - with the requirement that they be feasible in the here and now; the role of human rights in a world shaped by politics and power; and how to reconcile the individualistic and communitarian aspects of human rights. All chapters are accompanied by useful and probing commentaries, which help to create dialogues throughout the entire volume.
Author | : Reidar Maliks |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2017-07-25 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1107153972 |
Download Moral and Political Conceptions of Human Rights Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Human rights can be understood as moral or political. This volume shows how this distinction matters for theory and practice.
Author | : Arthur Ripstein |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2010-02-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0674054512 |
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In this masterful work, both an illumination of Kant’s thought and an important contribution to contemporary legal and political theory, Arthur Ripstein gives a comprehensive yet accessible account of Kant’s political philosophy. Ripstein shows that Kant’s thought is organized around two central claims: first, that legal institutions are not simply responses to human limitations or circumstances; indeed the requirements of justice can be articulated without recourse to views about human inclinations and vulnerabilities. Second, Kant argues for a distinctive moral principle, which restricts the legitimate use of force to the creation of a system of equal freedom. Ripstein’s description of the unity and philosophical plausibility of this dimension of Kant’s thought will be a revelation to political and legal scholars. In addition to providing a clear and coherent statement of the most misunderstood of Kant’s ideas, Ripstein also shows that Kant’s views remain conceptually powerful and morally appealing today. Ripstein defends the idea of equal freedom by examining several substantive areas of law—private rights, constitutional law, police powers, and punishment—and by demonstrating the compelling advantages of the Kantian framework over competing approaches.
Author | : Pablo Gilabert |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2019-01-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0198827229 |
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Human dignity: social movements invoke it, several national constitutions enshrine it, and it features prominently in international human rights documents. But what is human dignity, why is it important, and what is its relationship to human rights? This book offers a sophisticated and comprehensive defence of the view that human dignity is the moral heart of human rights. First, it clarifies the network of concepts associated with dignity. Paramount within this network is a core notion of human dignity as an inherent, non-instrumental, egalitarian, and high-priority normative status of human persons. People have this status in virtue of their valuable human capacities rather than as a result of their national origin and other conventional features. Second, it shows how human dignity gives rise to an inspiring ideal of solidaristic empowerment, which calls us to support people's pursuit of a flourishing life by affirming both negative duties not to block or destroy, and positive duties to protect and facilitate, the development and exercise of the valuable capacities at the basis of their dignity. The most urgent of these duties are correlative to human rights. Third, this book illustrates how the proposed dignitarian approach allows us to articulate the content, justification, and feasible implementation of specific human rights, including contested ones, such as the rights to democratic political participation and to decent labour conditions. Finally, this book's dignitarian approach helps illuminate the arc of humanist justice, identifying both the difference and the continuity between the basic requirements of human rights and more expansive requirements of social justice such as those defended by liberal egalitarians and democratic socialists. Human dignity is indeed the moral heart of human rights. Understanding it enables us to defend human rights as the urgent ethical and political project that puts humanity first.
Author | : Gerhard Ernst |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2011-11-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3110263882 |
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The notion of “human rights” is widely used in political and moral discussions. The core idea, that all human beings have some inalienable basic rights, is appealing and has an eminently practical function: It allows moral criticism of various wrongs and calls for action in order to prevent them. On the other hand it is unclear what exactly a human right is. Human rights lack a convincing conceptual foundation that would be able to compel the wrong-doer to accept human rights claims as well-founded. Hence the practical function faces theoretical doubts. The present collection takes up the tension between the wide political use of human rights claims and the intellectual skepticism about them. In particular two major issues are identified that call for conceptual clarification in order to better understand human rights claims both in theory and in practice: the question of how to justify human rights and the tension between universal normative claims and particular moralities.
Author | : Tara Smith |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780847680276 |
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Part I - Rights
Author | : Jessica Whyte |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2019-11-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1786633116 |
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The fatal embrace of human rights and neoliberalism Drawing on detailed archival research on the parallel histories of human rights and neoliberalism, Jessica Whyte uncovers the place of human rights in neoliberal attempts to develop a moral framework for a market society. In the wake of the Second World War, neoliberals saw demands for new rights to social welfare and self-determination as threats to “civilisation”. Yet, rather than rejecting rights, they developed a distinctive account of human rights as tools to depoliticise civil society, protect private investments and shape liberal subjects.
Author | : Jack Donnelly |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780801487767 |
Download Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
(unseen), $12.95. Donnelly explicates and defends an account of human rights as universal rights. Considering the competing claims of the universality, particularity, and relativity of human rights, he argues that the historical contingency and particularity of human rights is completely compatible with a conception of human rights as universal moral rights, and thus does not require the acceptance of claims of cultural relativism. The book moves between theoretical argument and historical practice. Rigorous and tightly-reasoned, material and perspectives from many disciplines are incorporated. Paper edition Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Rowan Cruft |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 721 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 019968863X |
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Readership: This book would be suitable for students, academics and scholars of law, philosophy, politics, international relations and economics
Author | : Elena Namli |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Human rights |
ISBN | : 9789155489779 |
Download Human Rights as Ethics, Politics, and Law Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This study offers a critical approach to the connections between the law, politics, and morality as they figure in human rights discourse. It argues that human rights must be understood -- ethically, politically, and legally -- through the prism of reasonable skepticism towards the legitimacy of contemporary institutions for the protection of human rights. The colonial legacy of human rights, the lack of transparent principles for dealing with conflicting rights, and the counterproductive overemphasis upon the importance of legal instruments are considered as offering serious challenges to the lasting legitimacy of human rights. These challenges are analyzed by means of selected human rights-related cases as well as theoretical discussion. --publisher description.