James Griffin

On Human Rights

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Produktbeschreibung

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? James Griffin offers answers in his compelling new investigation of human rights.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 686g
• ISBN-13: 9780199238781
• ISBN-10: 0199238782
• Artikelnr.: 23405941

Autorenporträt

James Griffin is White's Professor of Moral Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Oxford; Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University; and Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Canberra.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: An Account of Human Rights
I: Human Rights: The Incomplete Idea
II: First Steps in An Account of Human Rights
III: When Human Rights Conflict
IV: Whose Rights?
V: My Rights: But Whose Duties?
VI: The Metaphysics of Human Rights
VII: The Relativity and Ethnocentricity of Human Rights
Part II: Highest Level Human Rights
VIII: Autonomy
IX: Liberty
X: Welfare
Part III: Applications
XI: Discrepanices Between the Best Philosophical Account of Human Rights and the International Law of Human Rights
XII: A Right to Life, A Right to Death
XIII: Privacy
XIV: Do Human Rights Require Democracy?
XV: Group Rights