The Self Ethics Human Rights

Author : Alexandre Lefebvre
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780822371694

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Human Rights and the Care of the Self by Alexandre Lefebvre Pdf

When we think of human rights we assume that they are meant to protect people from serious social, legal, and political abuses and to advance global justice. In Human Rights and the Care of the Self Alexandre Lefebvre turns this assumption on its head, showing how the value of human rights also lies in enabling ethical practices of self-transformation. Drawing on Foucault's notion of "care of the self," Lefebvre turns to some of the most celebrated authors and activists in the history of human rights–such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Henri Bergson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Charles Malik–to discover a vision of human rights as a tool for individuals to work on, improve, and transform themselves for their own sake. This new perspective allows us to appreciate a crucial dimension of human rights, one that can help us to care for ourselves in light of pressing social and psychological problems, such as loneliness, fear, hatred, patriarchy, meaninglessness, boredom, and indignity.

Author : A. Reis Monteiro
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319035666

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Ethics of Human Rights by A. Reis Monteiro Pdf

This volume focuses on the ethical significance of human rights, aiming at contributing to a universal culture of human rights with deep roots and wide horizons. Its purpose, scope and rationale are reflected in the three-part structure of the manuscript. Part I has a broad introductory historical, theoretical and legal character. Part II submits that an Ethics of Human Rights is best understood as an Ethics of Recognition of human worth, dignity and rights. Moreover, it is argued that human worth consists in the perfectibility of the human species, rooted in its semiotic nature, to be accomplished through the perfecting of human beings, for which the right to education is key. In Part III, the main legal and political outcomes of the Human Rights Revolution are described and answers to the most lasting and common criticisms of human rights are provided. To conclude, the human stature of the Big Five drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is profiled and the priority that should be recognized to human rights education is highlighted. Some appendices supplement the manuscript. While making a case for the high value and liberating power of the idea and ideal of human rights, objections, controversies and uncertainties are not at all overlooked and emerging issues are explored. The diversity of content of this volume meets many needs of the typical syllabus for a human rights course.

Author : Carlos Santiago Nino
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015019857997

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4.2. The Liberal Retreat

Author : Clark Butler
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : 1557534802

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Human Rights Ethics by Clark Butler Pdf

Human Rights Ethics makes an important contribution to contemporary philosophical and political debates concerning the advancement of global justice and human rights. Butler's book also lays claim to a significant place in both normative ethics and human rights studies in as much as it seeks to vindicate a universalistic, rational approach to human rights ethics. Butler's innovative approach is not based on murky claims to "natural rights" that supposedly hold wherever human beings exist; nor does it succumb to the traditional problems of justification associated with utilitarianism, Kantianism, and other procedural approaches to human rights studies. Instead, Butler proposes "a dialectical justification of human rights by indirect proof" that claims not to be question begging. Very much in the spirit of Hegel and Habermas, Butler proposes to vindicate a "totally rational account of human rights," but one that depends concretely and historically on a dialectically constructed "right to freedom of thought in its universal modes."

Author : Joseph Indaimo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317805861

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The Self, Ethics & Human Rights by Joseph Indaimo Pdf

This book explores how the notion of human identity informs the ethical goal of justice in human rights. Within the modern discourse of human rights, the issue of identity has been largely neglected. However, within this discourse lies a conceptualisation of identity that was derived from a particular liberal philosophy about the ‘true nature’ of the isolated, self-determining and rational individual. Rights are thus conceived as something that are owned by each independent self, and that guarantee the exercise of its autonomy. Critically engaging this subject of rights, this book considers how recent shifts in the concept of identity and, more specifically, the critical humanist notion of ‘the other’, provides a basis for re-imagining the foundation of contemporary human rights. Drawing on the work of Jacques Lacan and Emmanuel Levinas, an inter-subjectivity between self and other ‘always already’ marks human identity with an ethical openness. And, this book argues, it is in the shift away from the human self as a ‘sovereign individual’ that human rights have come to reflect a self-identity that is grounded in the potential of an irreducible concern for the other.

Author : J A Indaimo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Human beings
ISBN : 0415742102

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The Self, Ethics and Human Rights by J A Indaimo Pdf

Within the modern discourse of human rights, the issue of identity has been largely neglected. This book explores how the notion of human identity informs the ethical goal of justice in human rights. Rights are conceived as something that are owned by each independent self, and that guarantee the exercise of its autonomy. Critically engaging this subject of rights, The Self, Ethics & Human Rights considers how recent shifts in the concept of identity and, more specifically, the critical humanist notion of 'the other', provides a basis for re-imagining the foundation of contemporary human rights.

Author : Jan Gorecki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351510332

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Justifying Ethics by Jan Gorecki Pdf

"Human rights include individual rights against government oppression, such as the right to freedom of thought, religion, speech, assembly, and to a fair system of criminal justice. But even in this basic political sense, ""human rights"" means different things in different historical and cultural contexts and advocacy of such rights has frequently been viewed as subjective. Justifying Ethics offers a thorough critique of the most common attempts to formulate objective standards through appeals to human nature, religion, and reason. Gorecki opens his inquiry by considering the role of norm-making concepts in the history of ethical thought: how standards of rights were claimed to conform to human nature and reason or have been stipulated by an external authoritative source such as God or social contracts. He then shows how such justifications may be discounted on analytical or practical grounds using such examples as divine will, Kantian reason, and the truth value of moral judgments. With respect to empirically grounded appeals to human nature, Gorecki argues against the notion that the innate plasticity of human behavior and potential for social diversity is sufficient grounds for human rights activity without objective justification. The search for justification remains essential in enhancing the persuasiveness of ethical action that aims at the moral ""contagion"" of the people by the human rights experience and the transition from moral acceptance to legal implementation.Broad in intellectual scope, Justifying Ethics draws upon moral and political philosophy, social policy, psychology, history, jurisprudence, and international law to clarify the prerequisites for the success of human rights activity. The book will be of special interest to political theorists, philosophers, sociologists, and human rights activists."

Author : Reidar Maliks,Johan Karlsson Schaffer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107153974

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Moral and Political Conceptions of Human Rights by Reidar Maliks,Johan Karlsson Schaffer Pdf

Human rights can be understood as moral or political. This volume shows how this distinction matters for theory and practice.

Author : J A Indaimo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Human beings
ISBN : 1317805844

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The Self, Ethics, and Human Rights by J A Indaimo Pdf

Author : Rowan Cruft,S. Matthew Liao,Massimo Renzo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199688630

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Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights by Rowan Cruft,S. Matthew Liao,Massimo Renzo Pdf

Readership: This book would be suitable for students, academics and scholars of law, philosophy, politics, international relations and economics

Author : Burton M. Leiser,Tom D. Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351760409

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Revival: Human Rights in Philosophy and Practice (2001) by Burton M. Leiser,Tom D. Campbell Pdf

This title was first published in 2001. The essays in this highly cosmopolitan collection were selected from over 250 contributions presented at the 19th World Congress in Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) held in New York in 1999. They represent a cross-section of contemporary work on human rights derived from eleven different countries.

Author : Peter Neyroud,Alan Beckley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135996222

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Policing, Ethics and Human Rights by Peter Neyroud,Alan Beckley Pdf

Ethical and human rights issues have assumed an increasingly high profile in the wake of miscarriages of justice, racism (Lawrence Inquiry), incompetence and corruption - in both Britain and overseas. At the same time the implementation of the Human Rights Act 1998 in England and Wales will have a major impact on policing, challenging many of the assumptions about how policing is carried out. This book aims to provide an accessible introduction to the key issues surrounding ethics in policing, linking this to recent developments and new human rights legislation. It sets out a powerful case for a modern 'ethical policing' approach. Policing, Ethics and Human Rights argues that securing and protecting human rights should be a major, if not the major, rationale for public policing.

Author : Shashi Motilal
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789380601151

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Applied Ethics and Human Rights by Shashi Motilal Pdf

This collection of papers offers a philosophical perspective - including the all-important and significant perspective from the point of view of 'dharma' - to a host of intricate ethical problems in personal, professional and social life, by providing an understanding of the concepts of human rights and responsibilities which are central to those problems.

Author : Gerhard Bos,Marcus Düwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317351764

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Human Rights and Sustainability by Gerhard Bos,Marcus Düwell Pdf

The history of human rights suggests that individuals should be empowered in their natural, political, political, social and economic vulnerabilities. States within the international arena hold each other responsible for doing just that and support or interfere where necessary. States are to protect these essential human vulnerabilities, even when this is not a matter of self-interest. This function of human rights is recognized in contexts of intervention, genocide, humanitarian aid and development. This book develops the idea of environmental obligations as long-term responsibilities in the context of human rights. It proposes that human rights require recognition that, in the face of unsustainable conduct, future human persons are exposed and vulnerable. It explores the obstacles for long-term responsibilities that human rights law provides at the level of international and national law and challenges the question of whether lifestyle restrictions are enforceable in view of liberties and levels of wellbeing typically seen as protected by human rights. The book will be of interest to postgraduates studying Human Rights, Sustainability, Law and Philosophy.

Author : Adam Etinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 9780198713258

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Human Rights by Adam Etinson Pdf

Over the past decade or so, philosophical speculation about human rights has tended to fall into two streams. On the one hand, there are "Orthodox" theorists, who think of human rights as natural rights: moral rights that we have simply in virtue of being human. On the other hand, there are"Political" theorists, who think of human rights as rights that play a distinctive role, or set of roles, in modern international politics: setting universal standards of political legitimacy, serving as norms of international concern, and/or imposing limits on the exercise of national sovereignty.This edited volume explores this disagreement, its underlying sources, and related issues in the philosophy of human rights. Using the Orthodox-Political debate as a springboard for broader reflection, the volume covers a diverse range of questions about: the relevance of the history of human rightsto their philosophical comprehension; how to properly understand the relationship between human rights morality and law; how to balance the normative character of human rights - their description of an ideal world - with the requirement that they be feasible in the here and now; the role of humanrights in a world shaped by politics and power; and how to reconcile the individualistic and communitarian aspects of human rights.All chapters are accompanied by useful and probing commentaries, which help to create dialogues throughout the entire volume.