Screen LibraryOn human rights
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford |
| Publication Dates: | 2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xiii, 339 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780199238781 (hbk.) 0199238782 (hbk.) |
| Index Number: | D815 |
| CLC: |
D815.7 D082 |
| Call Number: | D082/G851 |
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Includes bibliographical references(p.[277]-329) and index. 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. James Griffin's theory of the foundations of human rights offers answers as to what a human right is, how we can recognise one, and how we can resolve the conflicts between different ones. |