Moral and Political Conceptions of Human Rights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Moral and Political Conceptions of Human Rights write by Reidar Maliks. This book was released on 2017-07-25. Moral and Political Conceptions of Human Rights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Human rights can be understood as moral or political. This volume shows how this distinction matters for theory and practice.
Human Rights
Human Rights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Human Rights write by Adam Etinson. This book was released on 2018. Human Rights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the past decade or so, philosophical speculation about human rights has tended to fall into two streams. On the one hand, there are "Orthodox" theorists, who think of human rights as natural rights: moral rights that we have simply in virtue of being human. On the other hand, there are"Political" theorists, who think of human rights as rights that play a distinctive role, or set of roles, in modern international politics: setting universal standards of political legitimacy, serving as norms of international concern, and/or imposing limits on the exercise of national sovereignty.This edited volume explores this disagreement, its underlying sources, and related issues in the philosophy of human rights. Using the Orthodox-Political debate as a springboard for broader reflection, the volume covers a diverse range of questions about: the relevance of the history of human rightsto their philosophical comprehension; how to properly understand the relationship between human rights morality and law; how to balance the normative character of human rights - their description of an ideal world - with the requirement that they be feasible in the here and now; the role of humanrights in a world shaped by politics and power; and how to reconcile the individualistic and communitarian aspects of human rights.All chapters are accompanied by useful and probing commentaries, which help to create dialogues throughout the entire volume.
Moral and Political Conceptions of Human Rights
Moral and Political Conceptions of Human Rights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Moral and Political Conceptions of Human Rights write by Reidar Maliks. This book was released on 2017. Moral and Political Conceptions of Human Rights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Human rights can be understood as moral or political. This volume shows how this distinction matters for theory and practice
Force and Freedom
Force and Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Force and Freedom write by Arthur Ripstein. This book was released on 2010-02-15. Force and Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this masterful work, both an illumination of Kant’s thought and an important contribution to contemporary legal and political theory, Arthur Ripstein gives a comprehensive yet accessible account of Kant’s political philosophy. Ripstein shows that Kant’s thought is organized around two central claims: first, that legal institutions are not simply responses to human limitations or circumstances; indeed the requirements of justice can be articulated without recourse to views about human inclinations and vulnerabilities. Second, Kant argues for a distinctive moral principle, which restricts the legitimate use of force to the creation of a system of equal freedom. Ripstein’s description of the unity and philosophical plausibility of this dimension of Kant’s thought will be a revelation to political and legal scholars. In addition to providing a clear and coherent statement of the most misunderstood of Kant’s ideas, Ripstein also shows that Kant’s views remain conceptually powerful and morally appealing today. Ripstein defends the idea of equal freedom by examining several substantive areas of law—private rights, constitutional law, police powers, and punishment—and by demonstrating the compelling advantages of the Kantian framework over competing approaches.
The ECHR and Human Rights Theory
The ECHR and Human Rights Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The ECHR and Human Rights Theory write by Alain Zysset. This book was released on 2016-10-04. The ECHR and Human Rights Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) has been relatively neglected in the field of normative human rights theory. This book aims to bridge the gap between human rights theory and the practice of the ECHR. In order to do so, it tests the two overarching approaches in human rights theory literature: the ethical and the political, against the practice of the ECHR ‘system’. The book also addresses the history of the ECHR and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) as an international legal and political institution. The book offers a democratic defence of the authority of the ECtHR. It illustrates how a conception of democracy – more specifically, the egalitarian argument for democracy developed by Thomas Christiano on the domestic level – can illuminate the reasoning of the Court, including the allocation of the margin of appreciation on a significant number of issues. Alain Zysset argues that the justification of the authority of the ECtHR – its prominent status in the domestic legal orders – reinforces the democratic process within States Parties, thereby consolidating our status as political equals in those legal and political orders.
