Philosophical foundations of human rights /
Contributor(s): Cruft, Rowan [editor.] | Liao, S. Matthew [editor.] | Renzo, Massimo [editor.].
Series: Philosophical foundations of law: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015Description: xiii, 702 pages ; 25 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780199688623; 9780199688623:; 0199688621; 9780199688630; 019968863X.Subject(s): Human rights -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 323.01Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The philosophical foundations of human rights : an overview / Rowan Cruft, S. Matthew Liao, and Massimo Renzo -- On the foundations of human rights / John Tasioulas -- Response to John Tasioulas / Onora O'Neill -- Human rights as fundamental conditions for a good life / S. Matthew Liao -- From a good life to human rights : some complications / Rowan Cruft -- Is dignity the foundation of human rights? / Jeremy Waldron -- Human rights, natural rights, and human dignity / A. John Simmons -- Personal deserts and human rights / James W. Nickel -- Can moral desert qualify or justify human rights? / Zofia Stemplowska -- A social ontology of human rights / Carol C. Gould -- Human rights, human dignity, and power / Pablo Gilabert -- Human rights in the emerging world order / Joseph Raz -- Joseph Raz on human rights : a critical appraisal / David Miller -- Why international legal human rights? / Allen Buchanan -- Human rights pragmatism and human dignity / David Luban -- Human rights and constitutional law : patterns of mutual validation and legitimation / Samantha Besson -- Specifying human rights / Saladin Meckled-Garcia -- Rescuing proportionality / George Letsas -- Rescuing human rights from proportionality / Guglielmo Verdirame -- Free speech as an inverted right and democratic persuasion / Corey Brettschneider -- Free speech and "democratic persuasion" : a response to Brettschneider / Larry Alexander -- Freedom of religion in a secular world / Lorenzo Zucca -- Religious liberty conceived as a human right / Robert Audi -- The right to security / Liora Lazarus -- Rights and security for human rights sceptics / Victor Tadros -- Self-determination and the human right to democracy / Thomas Christiano -- A human right to democracy? / Fabienne Peter -- The content of the human right to health / Jonathan Wolff -- Do we have a human right to the political determinants of health? / Kimberley Brownlee -- A moral inconsistency argument for a basic human right to subsistence / Elizabeth Ashford -- The force of subsistence rights / Charles R. Beitz -- The relativity and ethnocentricity of human rights / James Griffin -- Human needs, human rights / Massimo Renzo -- Liberty rights and the limits of liberal democracy / Jiwei Ci -- Human rights without the human good? A reply to Jiwei Ci / Simon Hope -- Care and human rights / Virginia Held -- Care and human rights : a reply to Virginia Held / Susan Mendus -- Human rights in Kantian mode : a sketch / Katrin Flikschuh -- Why there cannot be a truly Kantian theory of human rights / Andrea Sangiovanni.
This title brings together a set of essays on the philosophical foundations of human rights, along with critical replies. It is a comprehensive survey of the topic, comprising of research essays from academics in the fields of law, philosophy, international relations, social science and economics.