ISBN:
019968863X
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0199688621
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9780199688630
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9780199688623
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 702 S.
Edition:
1. ed.
Series Statement:
Philosophical foundations of law
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg. Philosophical foundations of human rights
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Philosophical foundations of human rights
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Philosophical foundations of human rights
DDC:
323.01
Keywords:
Human rights Philosophy
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Menschenrecht
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Rechtsphilosophie
Abstract:
What makes something a human right? What is the relationship between the moral foundations of human rights and human rights law? What are the difficulties of appealing to human rights? This book offers the first comprehensive survey of current thinking on the philosophical foundations of human rights. Divided into four parts, this book focusses firstly on the moral grounds of human rights, for example in our dignity, agency, interests or needs. 'Secondly, it looks at the implications that different moral perspectives on human rights bear for human rights law and politics. Thirdly, it discusses specific and topical human rights including freedom of expression and religion, security, health and more controversial rights such as a human right to subsistence. The final part discusses nuanced critical and reformative views on human rights from feminist, Kantian and relativist perspectives among others. The essays represent new and canonical research by leading scholars in the field. Each part is comprised of a set of essays and replies, offering a comprehensive analysis of different positions within the debate in question.The introduction from the editors will guide researchers and students navigating the diversity of views on the philosophical foundations of human rights. -- cover
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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The philosophical foundations of human rights : an overview
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1. On the foundations of human rights
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2. Response to John Tasioulas
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3. Human rights as fundamental conditions for a good life
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4. From a good life to human rights : some complications
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5. Is dignity the foundation of human rights?
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6. Human rights, natural rights, and human dignity
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7. Personal deserts and human rights
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8. Can moral desert qualify or justify human rights?
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9. A social ontology of human rights
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10. Human rights, human dignity, and power
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Pt. II. Human rights in law and politics ; 11. Human rights in the emerging world order
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12. Joseph Raz on human rights : a critical appraisal
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13. Why international legal human rights?
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14. Human rights pragmatism and human dignity
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15. Human rights and constitutional law : patterns of mutual validation and legitimation
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16. Specifying human rights
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17. Rescuing proportionality
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18. Rescuing human rights from proportionality
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Pt. III. Canonical and contested human rights ; 19. Free speech as an inverted right and democratic persuasion
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20. Free speech and "democratic persuasion" : a response to Brettschneider
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21. Freedom of religion in a secular world
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22. Religious liberty conceived as a human right
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23. The right to security
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24. Rights and security for human rights sceptics
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25. Self-determination and the human right to democracy
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26. A human right to democracy?
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27. The content of the human right to health
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28. Do we have a human right to the political determinants of health?
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29. A moral inconsistency argument for a basic human right to subsistence
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30. The force of subsistence rights
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Pt. IV. Human rights : concerns and alternatives ; 31. The relativity and ethnocentricity of human rights
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32. Human needs, human rights
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33. Liberty rights and the limits of liberal democracy
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34. Human rights without the human good? A reply to Jiwei Ci
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35. Care and human rights
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36. Care and human rights : a reply to Virginia Held
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37. Human rights in Kantian mode : a sketch
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38. Why there cannot be a truly Kantian theory of human rights
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