A New Theory Of Human Rights

Author : Jack Donnelly
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801487767
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice written by Jack Donnelly and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (unseen), $12.95. Donnelly explicates and defends an account of human rights as universal rights. Considering the competing claims of the universality, particularity, and relativity of human rights, he argues that the historical contingency and particularity of human rights is completely compatible with a conception of human rights as universal moral rights, and thus does not require the acceptance of claims of cultural relativism. The book moves between theoretical argument and historical practice. Rigorous and tightly-reasoned, material and perspectives from many disciplines are incorporated. Paper edition Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Alison Assiter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538146304
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New Theory of Human Rights written by Alison Assiter and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new materialist thesis that focuses on the dynamic biological core of humans, shared with other animals and the rest of the natural world, to develop a radical theory of human rights. It therefore makes a unique contribution to literature and to academic and societal debates both on new materialisms and on human rights. Many on the political far right deride the concept of a human right. This has occurred in tandem with a growing contempt for the rule of law and for obligations to protect land or the environment, to recognize the rights of minorities, or even to respect the various mechanisms of democracy. On the other hand, ccontemporary ‘left-wing’ inspired literature has also rejected the concept of a human right as Enlightenment inspired and 'western’. This has gone hand in hand with a contestation of ‘essentialism’ and ‘universalism'. These theoretical positions have been variously critiqued as racist, sexist as well as Eurocentric. Drawing on metaphysics and ethics, with protagonists drawn from traditions across analytic and continental philosophy and feminist theory, Assiter challenges these critics to form a distinctive new materialist position. Most people – defenders and critics - take for granted that the concept of human rights and the universal view of humanity derive from the European Enlightenment. However, this bookdevelops a different story of its origin, from the earlier period of both Aristotle and the Zoroastrian Persian Empire, and locates the concept of a right partly in our biological core, yet challenges the assumption that this is constructed by language of any kind specifically including scientific discourse.

Author : David Boersema
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429977948
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Human Rights written by David Boersema and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining the sustained, coherent perspective of an authored text with diverse, authoritative primary readings, Philosophy of Human Rights provides the context and commentary students need to comprehend challenging rights concepts. Clear, accessible writing, thoughtful consideration of primary source documents, and practical, everyday examples pertinent to students' lives enhance this core textbook for courses on human rights and political philosophy. The first part of the book explores theoretical aspects, including the nature, justification, content, and scope of rights. With an emphasis on contemporary issues and debates, the second part applies these theories to practical issues such as political discourse, free expression, the right to privacy, children's rights, and victims' rights. The third part of the book features the crucial documents that are referred to throughout the book, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, the African Charter on Human Rights and Peoples' Rights, and many more.

Author : Paul Gready
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780203796405
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights and Development in the New Millennium written by Paul Gready and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years human rights have assumed a central position in the discourse surrounding international development, while human rights agencies have begun to more systematically address economic and social rights. This edited volume brings together distinguished scholars to explore the merging of human rights and development agendas at local, national and international levels. They examine how this merging affects organisational change, operational change and the role of relevant actors in bringing about change. With a focus on practice and policy rather than pure theory, the volume also addresses broader questions such as what human rights and development can learn from one another, and whether the connections between the two fields are increasing or declining. The book is structured in three sections: Part I looks at approaches that combine human rights and development, including chapters on drivers of change; indicators; donor; and legal empowerment of the poor. Part II focuses on organisational contexts and includes chapters on the UN at the country level; EU development cooperation; PLAN's children's rights-based approach; and ActionAid's human rights-based approach. Part III examines country contexts, including chapters on the ILO in various settings; the Congo; Ethiopia; and South Africa. Human Rights and Development in the new Millennium: Towards a Theory of Change will be of strong interest to students and scholars of human rights, development studies, political science and economics.

Author : Charles R. Beitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199604371
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Idea of Human Rights written by Charles R. Beitz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human rights have become one of the most important moral concepts in global political life over the last 60 years. Charles Beitz, one of the world's leading philosophers, offers a compelling new examination of the idea of a human right.

Author : Michael J. Perry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113946082X
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward a Theory of Human Rights written by Michael J. Perry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-13 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neither the morality of human rights nor its relation to the law of human rights is well understood. In this book, Michael Perry addresses three large issues. There is undeniably a religious ground - indeed, more than one religious ground - for the morality of human rights. But is there a secular ground for the morality of human rights? What is the relation between the morality of human rights and the law of human rights? Perry here addresses the controversial issues of capital punishment, abortion, and same-sex unions. What is the proper role of courts, in a liberal democracy, in protecting - and therefore in interpreting - constitutionally entrenched human rights? In considering this question, special attention is paid to the Supreme Court and how it should rule on issues such as capital punishment and abortion. Toward a Theory of Human Rights makes a significant contribution both to human rights studies and to constitutional theory.

Author : Reidar Maliks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107153972
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral and Political Conceptions of Human Rights written by Reidar Maliks and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human rights can be understood as moral or political. This volume shows how this distinction matters for theory and practice.

Author : Andreas Follesdal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135079382
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kantian Theory and Human Rights written by Andreas Follesdal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human rights and the courts and tribunals that protect them are increasingly part of our moral, legal, and political circumstances. The growing salience of human rights has recently brought the question of their philosophical foundation to the foreground. Theorists of human rights often assume that their ideal can be traced to the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and his view of humans as ends in themselves. Yet, few have attempted to explore exactly how human rights should be understood in a Kantian framework. The scholars in this book have gathered to fill this gap. At the center of Kant’s theory of rights is a view of freedom as independence from domination. The chapters explore the significance of this theory for the nature of human rights, their justification, and the legitimacy of international human rights courts.

Author : Costas Douzinas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107027853
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Meanings of Rights written by Costas Douzinas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questioning some of the repetitive and narrow theoretical writings on rights, a group of leading intellectuals examine human rights from philosophical, theological, historical, literary and political perspectives.

Author : James Griffin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191623415
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Human Rights written by James Griffin and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-08-27 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a human right? How can we tell whether a proposed human right really is one? How do we establish the content of particular human rights, and how do we resolve conflicts between them? These are pressing questions for philosophers, political theorists, jurisprudents, international lawyers, and activists. James Griffin offers answers in his compelling new investigation of the foundations of human rights. First, On Human Rights traces the idea of a natural right from its origin in the late Middle Ages, when the rights were seen as deriving from natural laws, through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when the original theological background was progressively dropped and 'natural law' emptied of most of its original meaning. By the end of the Enlightenment, the term 'human rights' (droits de l'homme) appeared, marking the purge of the theological background. But the Enlightenment, in putting nothing in its place, left us with an unsatisfactory, incomplete idea of a human right. Griffin shows how the language of human rights has become debased. There are scarcely any accepted criteria, either in the academic or the public sphere, for correct use of the term. He takes on the task of showing the way towards a determinate concept of human rights, based on their relation to the human status that we all share. He works from certain paradigm cases, such as freedom of expression and freedom of worship, to more disputed cases such as welfare rights - for instance the idea of a human right to health. His goal is a substantive account of human rights - an account with enough content to tell us whether proposed rights really are rights. Griffin emphasizes the practical as well as theoretical urgency of this goal: as the United Nations recognized in 1948 with its Universal Declaration, the idea of human rights has considerable power to improve the lot of humanity around the world. We can't do without the idea of human rights, and we need to get clear about it. It is our job now - the job of this book - to influence and develop the unsettled discourse of human rights so as to complete the incomplete idea.