On human rights / James Griffin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griffin, James, 1933- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Philosophy.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 339 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. - ;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? These are pressing questions for philosophers, political theorists, jurisprudents, international lawyers, and activists. James Griffi

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-329) and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-162341-5

0-19-957310-7

1-281-34128-2

9786611341282

0-19-155350-6

1-4356-3345-8

OCLC:

437093955