On human rights
Traces the idea of a natural right from its origin in the late Middle Ages, when the rights were seen as deriving from natural laws, through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when the original theological background was progressively dropped and 'natural law' emptied of most of its...
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Oxford New York
Oxford University Press
2008
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Table of Contents:
- Human rights : the incomplete idea
- First steps in an account of human rights
- When human rights conflict
- Whose rights?
- My rights : but whose duties?
- The metaphysics of human rights
- The relativity and ethnocentricity of human rights
- Autonomy
- Liberty
- Welfare
- Human rights : discrepancies between philosophy and international law
- A right to life, a right to death-- Privacy
- Do human rights require democracy?
- Group rights