Fernando Simón-Yarza

Between Desire and Reason

Rights Discourse at the Crossroads

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an in-depth account of the most important moral debates surrounding human rights today. They are the basis of legitimacy for modern Western civilisation, yet there still exists differences between our common view on the importance of rights and our profound disagreement on their meaning and content.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9781786614407
• ISBN-10: 1786614405
• Artikelnr.: 57388533

Autorenporträt

Fernando Simón Yarza is Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Navarra (Spain). He has been a Visiting Scholar in the Universities of Münster (Germany), Boston and Princeton. He has been awarded the prestigious "Tomás y Valiente Prize" by the Constitutional Court of Spain. He is a member of the James Madison Society (Princeton University).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: A possible framework for understanding
Part I: Good and reason in two classical political traditions
1. The Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition
2. Immanuel Kant
Part II: Antiperfectionist liberalism and the desire principle
3. "Free and equals": John Rawls's political philosophy
4. "Equal concern and respect": Ronald Dworkin's philosophy of rights
5. Goods and processes: Jürgen Habermas's ethical-political project
Part III: The dehumanization of human rights
6. Mutual disinterest and civil liberties
7. Desireless life and undesirable life
8. Playing God? Promethean desires
Part IV. Constructive proposals
9. Teleology of civil liberties
10. Perfectionist liberalism and restriction of the rights discourse
Bibliography