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Philosophical foundations of human rights
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Oxford University Press
Publication Date
2015.
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English
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From the Online Resource - First edition.
The philosophical foundations of human rights : an overview / Rowan Cruft, S. Matthew Liao, and Massimo Renzo
Pt. I. Human rights' foundations
1. On the foundations of human rights / John Tasioulas
2. Response to John Tasioulas / Onora O'Neill
3. Human rights as fundamental conditions for a good life / S. Matthew Liao
4. From a good life to human rights : some complications / Rowan Cruft
5. Is dignity the foundation of human rights? / Jeremy Waldron
6. Human rights, natural rights, and human dignity / A. John Simmons
7. Personal deserts and human rights / James W. Nickel
8. Can moral desert qualify or justify human rights? / Zofia Stemplowska
9. A social ontology of human rights / Carol C. Gould
10. Human rights, human dignity, and power / Pablo Gilabert
Pt. II. Human rights in law and politics
11. Human rights in the emerging world order / Joseph Raz
12. Joseph Raz on human rights : a critical appraisal / David Miller
13. Why international legal human rights? / Allen Buchanan
14. Human rights pragmatism and human dignity / David Luban
15. Human rights and constitutional law : patterns of mutual validation and legitimation / Samantha Besson
16. Specifying human rights / Saladin Meckled-Garcia
17. Rescuing proportionality / George Letsas
18. Rescuing human rights from proportionality / Guglielmo Verdirame
Pt. III. Canonical and contested human rights
19. Free speech as an inverted right and democratic persuasion / Corey Brettschneider
20. Free speech and "democratic persuasion" : a response to Brettschneider / Larry Alexander
21. Freedom of religion in a secular world / Lorenzo Zucca
22. Religious liberty conceived as a human right / Robert Audi
23. The right to security / Liora Lazarus
24. Rights and security for human rights sceptics / Victor Tadros
25. Self-determination and the human right to democracy / Thomas Christiano
26. A human right to democracy? / Fabienne Peter
27. The content of the human right to health / Jonathan Wolff
28. Do we have a human right to the political determinants of health? / Kimberley Brownlee
29. A moral inconsistency argument for a basic human right to subsistence / Elizabeth Ashford
30. The force of subsistence rights / Charles R. Beitz
Pt. IV. Human rights : concerns and alternatives
31. The relativity and ethnocentricity of human rights / James Griffin
32. Human needs, human rights / Massimo Renzo
33. Liberty rights and the limits of liberal democracy / Jiwei Ci
34. Human rights without the human good? A reply to Jiwei Ci / Simon Hope
35. Care and human rights / Virginia Held
36. Care and human rights : a reply to Virginia Held / Susan Mendus
37. Human rights in Kantian mode : a sketch / Katrin Flikschuh
38. Why there cannot be a truly Kantian theory of human rights / Andrea Sangiovanni.
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