Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights

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Rowan Cruft, S. Matthew Liao, Massimo Renzo
OUP Oxford, 30.04.2015 - 650 Seiten
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 focuses 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 section is structured as 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.
 

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Contributors
On the Foundations of Human Rights
John Tasioulas
Human Rights as Fundamental Conditions for a Good Life
Some Complications
Is Dignity the Foundation of Human Rights?
Human Rights Natural Rights and Human Dignity
Personal Deserts and Human Rights
A Response
Religious Liberty Conceived as a Human Right
The Right to Security
Rights and Security for Human Rights Sceptics
Selfdetermination and the Human Right to Democracy
A Human Right to Democracy?
The Content of the Human Right to Health
Do We Have a Human Right to the Political Determinants

Can Moral Desert Qualify or Justify Human Rights?
A Social Ontology of Human Rights
Human Rights Human Dignity and Power
Human Rights in the Emerging World Order
Joseph
Why International Legal Human Rights?
Human Rights Pragmatism and Human Dignity
Patterns of Mutual
Specifying Human Rights
Rescuing Proportionality
Rescuing Human Rights from Proportionality
Free Speech as an Inverted Right and Democratic Persuasion
The Force of Subsistence Rights
A Moral Inconsistency Argument for a Basic Human Right
The Relativity and Ethnocentricity of Human Rights
Human Needs Human Rights
Liberty Rights and the Limits of Liberal Democracy
Jiwei Ci
Care and Human Rights
A Reply to Virginia Held
A Sketch
Why there Cannot be a Truly Kantian Theory of Human Rights
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Rowan Cruft is a senior lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Stirling. He has published articles on the nature and justification of rights and duties, focusing on the relationship between rights, respect and individualism. His work aims to reveal the comparative importance of different forms of right including human rights, natural rights, contractual rights, property rights, legal rights. Massimo Renzo is an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. His main research interests are in the problems of authority, political obligation, international justice and the philosophical foundations of the criminal law. He is co-editor, with R.A. Duff, Lindsay Farmer, Sandra Marshall and Victor Tadros, of the volumes The Constitutions of the Criminal Law (OUP 2010) and The Structures of the Criminal Law (OUP 2011). S. Matthew Liao is Director of the Bioethics Program and Affiliated Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He is also Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Moral Philosophy. His research interests include ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, moral psychology, and bioethics.

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