书目名称 | Human Duties and the Limits of Human Rights Discourse |
编辑 | Eric R. Boot |
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概述 | Provides a comprehensive discussion of the controversial human duties declarations promulgated in recent decades.Uses Kant’s taxonomy of duties as a guideline to distinguish genuine from spurious huma |
丛书名称 | Studies in Global Justice |
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描述 | .This book demonstrates the importance of a duty-based approach to morality. The dominance of what has been labeled “rights talk” leads to the neglect of duties without corresponding rights (e.g., duties of virtue) and stimulates the proliferation of questionable human rights. Therefore, this book argues for a duty-based perspective on morality in order to, first, salvage duties of virtue, and, second, counter the trend of rights-proliferation by providing some conceptual clarity concerning rights and duties that will enable us to differentiate between genuine and spurious rights-claims. .The argument for this duty-based perspective is made by examining two particularly contentious duties: duties to aid the global poor and civic duties. These two duties serve as case studies and are explored from the perspectives of political theory, jurisprudence and moral philosophy. The argument is made that both these duties can only be adequately defined and allocated if we adopt theperspective of duties, as the predominant perspective of rights either does not recognize them to be duties at all or else leaves their content and allocation indefinite. .This renewed focus on duties does not wish |
出版日期 | Book 2017 |
关键词 | Limits of Human Rights; Human Duties to Human Rights; Human Duties Declarations; International Human Ri |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66957-1 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-66957-1Series ISSN 1871-0409 Series E-ISSN 1871-1456 |
issn_series | 1871-0409 |
copyright | Springer International Publishing AG 2017 |