Philosophical foundations of human rights /

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Edition:First edition.
Imprint:Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Description:1 online resource.
Language:English
Series:Philosophical foundations of law
Philosophical foundations of law.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12718816
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Other authors / contributors:Cruft, Rowan, editor.
Liao, S. Matthew, editor.
Renzo, Massimo, editor.
ISBN:9780191002908
0191002909
9780191768101
0191768103
9780199688630
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 20, 2015).
Other form:Print version: Philosophical foundations of human rights. First edition. Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, ©2015 xii, 702 pages Philosophical foundations of law. 9780199688630
Table of Contents:
  • 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.