Why Human Rights?
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Why Human Rights?

A Philosophical Guide

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Why Human Rights?

A Philosophical Guide

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Why Human Rights addresses universal human rights as moral mandates – rights to justice that all persons have by virtue of their humanity alone. These are not the legal rights of statutes and treaties, but moral rights of the kind Gandhi, King, and Mandela invoked to oppose unjust laws. All such rights presuppose three claims: (1) that some duties of justice apply universally, (2) that all human beings have equal moral significance, and (3) that states must protect or serve certain individual interests regardless of the societal impact of doing so.

Can these three premises be justified? Is the human equality claim, for example, rationally supportable, or is it no less faith-based than hierarchical doctrines like caste? This book explores the case for these foundational claims along with other philosophical controversies pertaining to human rights. Because these issues lie at the heart of moral and political philosophy, readers will also obtain a broad appreciation of these disciplines and their leading theorists, including Mill, Kant, Rawls, Sandel, Nozick, Rorty, and many others. Written in concise, jargon-free language, this book presents a high-relief map of the philosophical issues surrounding human rights.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
ISBN
9781040102121
Edition
1
Topic
Filosofia
Subtopic
Storia e teoria della filosofia

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half Title
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. Part I: Universality, Relativism, and Diversity
  11. 1 How Are Human Rights Universal?
  12. 2 Relativist Objections
  13. 3 Diversity and Indeterminacy
  14. 4 The Limits of Skepticism
  15. Part II: Human Equality and Moral Hierarchies
  16. 5 Human Moral Equality: The Claim and Its Challenges
  17. 6 Theories of Moral Considerability
  18. Part III: Individual Rights and Collective Interests
  19. 7 The Domain of Rights
  20. 8 Justifying Rights
  21. 9 Liberty, Equality, and Community: Complements or Competitors?
  22. Appendix A: Rawls' Evolution from Liberal Rights in A Theory of Justice to Human Rights in The Law of Peoples
  23. Appendix B: The Case of Aspirational Economic Rights
  24. Appendix C: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  25. References
  26. Index