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Philosophical foundations of human rights
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- ISBN: 9780199688630
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xii, 702 p. ; 25 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
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| Formatted Contents Note: | Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Part I. Human rights' foundations - 1. On the foundations of human rights - 2. Response to John Tasioulas - 3. Human rights as fundamental Conditions for a good life - 4. From a good life to human rights: some complications - 5. Is dignity the foundation of human rights? - 6. Human rights, natural rights, and human dignity - 7. Personal deserts and human rights - 8. Can moral desert qualify or justify human rights? - 9. Social ontology of human rights - 10. Human rights, human dignity, and power -- Part II. Human rights in law and politics - 11. Human rights in the emerging world order - 12. Joseph Raz on human rights: a critical appraisal - 13. Why international legal human rights? - 14. Human Rights Pragmatism and Human Dignity - 15. Human Rights and Constitutional Law: Patterns of Mutual Validation and Legitimation - 16. Specifying Human Rights - 17. Rescuing Proportionality - 18. Rescuing Human Rights from Proportionality -- Part III. Canonical and contested human rights - 19. Free Speech as an Inverted Right and Democratic Persuasion - 20. Free speech and "democratic persuasion": a response to brettschneider - 21. Freedom of religion in a secular world - 22. Religious liberty conceived as a human right - 23. Right to security - 24. Rights and security for human rights sceptics - 25. Self-determination and the human Right to democracy - 26. Human right to democracy? - 27. Content of the human right to health - 28. Do we have a human right to the political determinants of health? - 29. Moral inconsistency argument for a basic human right to subsistence - 30. Force of subsistence rights -- Part IV. Human rights: concerns and alternatives - 31. Relativity and Ethnocentricity of Human Rights - 32. Human Needs, Human Rights - 33. Liberty rights and the limits of liberal democracy - 34. Human rights without the human good? a reply to Jiwei Ci - 35. Care and human rights - 36. Care and Human Rights: A Reply to Virginia Held - 37. Human Rights in Kantian mode: a sketch - 38. Why there Cannot be a Truly Kantian Theory of Human Rights -- Index. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| The Pas Campus Library | JC 571 .P45 2015 (Text) | 58500000445023 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |
Rowan Cruft, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Stirling,S. Matthew Liao, Director of the Bioethics Program and Affiliated Professor of Philosophy, New York University,Massimo Renzo, Associate Professor, University of Warwick
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.
