Actualizing Human Rights: Global Inequality, Future People, and Motivation

ISBN-13: 9780367820381 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 142 str.

Jos Philips

Opis

This book argues that ultimately human rights can be actualized, in two senses. By answering important challenges to them, the real-world relevance of human rights can be brought out; and people worldwide can be motivated as needed for realizing human rights.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Two New Challenges to Human Rights and the Question of Motivation  Part I: Preparing the Ground  2. Human Rights: A Conception  3. Common Challenges to Human Rights: The Relativist and the Political Pawns Challenge  Part II: Novel Challenges to Human Rights  4. The Challenge of Global Inequality  5. The Challenge of Future People  Part III: Getting to Realization  6. The Question of Motivation: Can People Be Motivated as Needed for Realizing Human Rights?  7. Conclusion

O autorze

Jos Philips is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.