Moral and political conceptions of human rights : implications for theory and practice / edited by Reidar Maliks (University of Oslo), Johan Karlsson Schaffer (University of Gothenburg)
In recent years, political philosophers have debated whether human rights are a special class of moral rights we all possess simply by virtue of our common humanity and which are universal in time and space, or whether they are essentially modern political constructs defined by the role they play in...
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Table of Contents:
- Expanding the debate on moral and political approaches to the philosophy of human rights / Johan Karlsson Schaffer & Reidar Maliks
- Theory, politics, and practice : methodological pluralism in the philosophy of human rights / Kristen Hessler
- The point of the practice of human rights : international concern or domestic empowerment? / Johan Karlsson Schaffer
- Beyond 'moral' vs 'political' : Rawls's relational conception of human rights / Luise Katharina Muller
- Theories of human rights : institutional or orthodox : why it matters / Andreas Follesdal
- Mediating the theory and practice of human rights in morality and law / David Ingram
- Kantian human rights; or, How the individual has come to matter in international law / Howard Williams
- Human rights solidarity : moral or political? / Seth Mayer
- When the practice gets complicated : moral rights, migrants and political institutions / Jelena Belic
- Can naturalistic theories of human rights accommodate the indigenous right to self-determination? / Kerstin Reibold
- Political conceptions of human rights and corporate responsibility / Daniel P. Corrigan
- Socio-economic rights : between essentialism and egalitarianism / Malcolm Langford.